Upon graduating King's School, Canterbury, he received a six-year scholarship to Cambridge upon the condition that he studies for the church. ... Doctor Faustus could be considered one of Marlowe's masterpieces of drama. ... First of all, the Faustus claims that he is a master in all fields of study. ... He is bored with the study of law for "this study fits a mercenary drudge Who aims at nothing but external trash, Too servile and illiberal to me- (1.1.34-36). ...

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Although the drama's prologue suggests Doctor Faustus was condemned to Hell because of his desire to know and excel, he was instead damned because he had turned away from true knowledge and wisdom to false knowledge and foolishness. ... It developed during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and was a response to the challenge of medieval scholastic education, emphasizing practical, pre-professional and scientific studies. ... This was accomplished through the study of the studia humanitatis, today known as the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philosophy. ... ...

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"Enter: Philosopher, and lo! He proves to you it must be so- (Faust: 1928-29) Can Faust, pre and post Mephistopheles, be seen in an either Nietzschean or Schopenhauerian light? Introduction. This piece of work grew out of reading chapters four and five of Walter Kaufmann's book The Ow...

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• Grade Level: High School