Dr. Faustus from Christopher Marlowe and Fausto’s myth
Introduction
Dr. Faustus from Christopher Marlowe and Fausto’s myth in the Golden Age, by DR. Simon Brown Christopher Marlowe is a very mysterious and curious figure in English literature. Very little is known about his life, only a few key moments as his birth, his university training and his early death for murder.
Developing
There is proof that he had problems committing a murder, falsification of currencies and streets, so it is believed that I work as a spy in France and the Netherlands for English crown during the Catholic-Prothest conflict and even relates to its mysterious murder to people whoThey also work at the English Secret Service. Around his work Doctor Faustus there is also a lot of mystery and confusion. There are two theories of at what time in his life he composed either close to his university era or at a later time in his life because there is no evidence of when he was written. The work has not come completely or in the same edition.
The first two editions appear after their death, the first in 1604 that is truncated and in 1616 another text appears that is more extensive and there is evidence of modifications by other authors. It is also believed that the author did not leave the work very defined or perfect due to the tendency of the moment of leaving freedom to the theater companies to modify and add elements to his works so he surely sold his work to a company and lost thecontrol over it.
There is even evidence that there were playwrights that were hired to modify and represent it in their own way. Marlowe was a great influence on the subsequent theater, also influencing the Shakespeare theater that imitated his way of doing theater and even the joint authorship with some of his works is attributed. He also popularized the "Mighty Line", a type of verse of great importance in later English theater. Additionally, its theater fits with the type of special effects theater that from this moment becomes popular and numerous works with content related to the devil and these effects appear.
With this myth you can establish a parallel with the Spanish theater of the Golden Age where its influence is seen. In the work there is no thing like Callarón de Calderón de la Barca where the protagonist is a mixture between Fausto and Don Juan. In the work there are continuous references to selling the soul and the devil, and also although the devil does not appear there is a pact because he mentions that he would sell his soul because he met Leonor, a woman who has fallen in love and when he returns heFind in your room.
Also in the work of Tirso de Molina, the mocker of Seville appears a man without identity and there are references to make pacts with the demon talking about hell and fire. The devil is also associated with humor because we laugh at what scares us and fear. A difference with the English Faust is that he agrees with the devil with the objective of knowledge and his Spanish versions do so to get a woman, this is related to pride as a capital sin.
The woman is associated with the temptation that leads men to failure and this conception of women is also seen in Marlowe’s work the only ones that are mentioned to the woman. Once she was a demon instead of a woman to marry and one last time, just before her death, Helena de Troya appears, the most beautiful theory woman in history and when kissing her absorbs her soul ending her life. This last failure coincides with the misogynist conception that Spanish works have when they relate women as a sin for men.
conclusion
The doctor’s conference has been very interesting because the story was unknown to me behind Fausto’s famous myth. The authorship of this work is a concept that caught my attention and as the idea of authorship is completely different from the one that currently exists. Right now, an author would not let control of his work be lost as they did when selling it. It is also very interesting parallelism and the influence that this work has in Spanish literature with its similarities and their differences, the case of women and knowledge. It has been a very enriching conference. By Alba Carbajo de la Hera.
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