Doctor Faustus

Faustus is an accomplished scholar, whose overweening ambition to become the world’s most powerful practitioner of magic and the dark arts drives him to sign a contract in his own blood, exchanging his immortal soul for twenty-four years of the devil’s service. He and Lucifer’s agent, Mephistopheles, pursue a course of mischief and mayhem, until the hero’s doom finally catches up with him, when he must face eternal damnation. Based on the best-selling (and true!) sixteenth-century German account of a famous magician and necromancer, Christopher Marlowe’s brilliant tragedy has fascinated audiences for over 400 years and remains piercingly relevant today.