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shredsandpatches · 11 months

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probably shouldn't be reading about Doctor Faustus and religious trauma at 1 am but here's some good quotes: the top one is from top from Mark James Richard Scott, "'That’s hard': Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Trauma of Reprobation" (Early Theatre 23.2, 9-20) and the bottom one is from David Bevington's intro to the play in the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama.

#doctor faustus #hot faust summer #i studied the play with bevington as a spiritually struggling 22-year-old #his empathetic approach to it was really meaningful to me #the scott article basically argues #marlowe's play seems to be set in a calvinist universe but from the perspective that that sucks #and that maybe some people just being left out of salvation makes sense from the perspective of god #but makes no sense at all on the ground #so the other point is that the play offered people an opportunity to sort of confront their own doubts in a safe environment #marlowe's faustus doesn't really do much that's all that bad in terms of his interactions with the world #it's entirely about his lack of faith #he doesn't have it because he was never given the capacity for it #(contends this piece anyway)#like he's absolutely an arrogant shit with a juvenile sense of humor but #his desire for power is much more expansive than the things he actually does with it when he has it #he does not create the level of collateral damage that goethe's does #and the feeling of 'what if my emptiness and lack of faith is a sign that god has rejected me before i was even born' is sheer horror #and one i have experienced #anyway i get you johann buddy

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