Moral Play In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Introduction

Christopher Marlowe’s life was full of speculation and adventure so I decided to personally search about his life and find out what caused his death/disappearance, about his atheism and the infamous moral play doctor Faustus, he was a great Elizabethan playwright, born in Canterbury Kent on 6 February 1564, He was born the same year as William Shakespeare during the reign of Elizabeth I. His father John Marlowe was a shoe maker and the family must have been quite well off because Christopher was sent to the Kings School. But why would an atheist like him write a moral play like doctor Faustus?

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Why did He die/disappeared?

There are many conspiracies and theories about his death and mysterious life on 30 May, 1593 the day he

And what I find really interesting about the play is that it’s so corrupt that it’s impossible to determine whether or not Marlowe wrote the complete play as it.

Here is the plot

Faustus turns to magic--even to black magic--and calls upon the minion of Lucifer requiring him, Mephistopheles, to fulfill his aspirations for power and unlimited knowledge. Mephistopheles agrees in an underhanded sort of way, knowing that what he grants is itself limited by the bounds of Lucifer’s authority over a both. Faustus, though quailing with fears--and seeing the warning "Homo fuge" ("Fly, man") written upon his arm as he readies to sign in blood the contract with the Devil--nonetheless sells his soul to the Devil for twenty-four short years of magical tricks, books of limited knowledge,