Doctor Faustus
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?"
Synopsis
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust.
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