WORLD THEATRE "DR FAUSTUS"
C WORLD THEATRE this week presents. Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, from 1YC, 3YC and 4YC on Monday, August 19, and from 2YC on Saturday, August 24. Michael Bakewell, the producer, has tried in his adaptation to keep as far as possible to those passages certainly written by Marlowe. This has meant the deletion of most of the comic scenes, generally accepted to be from Other Hands. It has left less cluttered the sweep. and brilliance of Marlowe’s "mighty line," |without impairing the development of this drama of spiritual pride as Faustus reaches out for know-le-ge beyond the ordinary range of human intelligence, until he finally and most magnificently has to pay his tuition fees. Here we are most reminded of Swinburne’s description of Marlowe as 2 sovereign star "shod with light and ? . 7
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 27
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141WORLD THEATRE "DR FAUSTUS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 27
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