Doctor Faustus Contents
- The Faust figure in European culture
- Social / political context
- Religious / philosophical context
- The theatrical context
- The texts of Doctor Faustus
- Prologue: Chorus one
- Scene one
- Scene two
- Scene three
- Scene four
- Scene five
- Chorus two
- Scene six
- Scene six, version B
- Scene seven
- Scene seven, version B
- Scene eight
- Scene eight, version B
- Chorus three
- Scene nine
- Scene nine, version B
- Scene ten
- Scene eleven
- Chorus four
- Scene twelve
- Scene thirteen
- Epilogue
Faustus' journey
This heading sums up what is covered in various ways in other sections of this guide: the central action of the play that takes Faustus from his standing as a learned and respected scholar to a trickster and practical joker and then a damned soul.
This progress is marked in a number of ways:
- The encounters between Faustus and Mephastophilis
- Faustus' soliloquies
- The comments of the Chorus and other characters
- The nature of the action in the comic and farcical scenes.
The first two of these – Faustus in debate with himself and with Mephastophilis – are the most important in understanding the meanings of the play and are discussed in the section Characters.
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