Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus: Genre 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play Doctor Faustus is a quintessential Elizabethan tragedy. Although William Shakespeare is the playwright who most often comes to readers’ minds when the subject of Elizabethan drama comes up, while Marlowe was alive, he was actually the more popular of the two dramatists. Today, his works are generally cited with Shakespeare’s as some of the greatest in British literary history.