NOTES ON ESSAY:
Marlowe did not write one of the versions. Which was it more likely to be? Neither, Marlowe was a lazy bastard. He probably employed a monkey with a face.
Less spectacle in the play certainly detracts from its seriousness.
The spectacle does not add a great deal to the play. If anything it makes it less serious. Would the audience consider the final dismemberment of Faustus a joke? Possible. Well, there’s nothing funny about dismemberment.
Spectacle scenes: The one with the horse. Quintessential differences between the two texts are stuff like, I dunno, whatever.
This play is a TRAGEDY. I think the B-text forgets that sometimes.
MARLOWE WAS A BASTARD. NEVER FORGET.
My essay is due in for monday. :(
- John
Marlowe did not write one of the versions. Which was it more likely to be? Neither, Marlowe was a lazy bastard. He probably employed a monkey with a face.
Less spectacle in the play certainly detracts from its seriousness.
The spectacle does not add a great deal to the play. If anything it makes it less serious. Would the audience consider the final dismemberment of Faustus a joke? Possible. Well, there’s nothing funny about dismemberment.
Spectacle scenes: The one with the horse. Quintessential differences between the two texts are stuff like, I dunno, whatever.
This play is a TRAGEDY. I think the B-text forgets that sometimes.
MARLOWE WAS A BASTARD. NEVER FORGET.
My essay is due in for monday. :(
- John
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