A review by nenich19
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays by David Bevington, Christopher Marlowe, Eric Rasmussen

3.0

Although a highly regarded classic, I found Doctor Faustus tedious and tiring to read. It took me several reads to fully comprehend each scene, trying to fully concentrate on what they were saying. Although I can see how it ties in to my course "The Tragedy of Knowledge", Doctor Faustus has to do too much with religion for my liking - in a sense, as if it is vilifying true knowledge, or rather knowledge against the doctrines of the Church. I would like to think he's just taking the piss on the whole "you will be punished blah blah blah knowledge is the Devil's temptation and it is forbidden because it will condemn your immortal soul blah blah blah". Not to say that religion and faith is something bad, but the authority of the Church, or any power that, in a sense, controls religion is oftentimes corrupt. Just to think of how many books were "banned", how much knowledge has been denied to people because the Church decided it was a threat to their power makes me shudder.