Doctor John Faustus has reached and expanded the limits of human knowledge. In search of a deeper understanding of the universe and its laws, all that's left to do is to turn to the supernatural. So, ...

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NEW MOVIES Doctor Faustus Lots of grads bring their wives back to the old school and ham it up for home movies — but this is ridiculous. Richard Burton is charging admission. The Burton version of ...

Any production of “Dr. Faustus” faces two major challenges. First, it is written in Elizabethan blank verse. And second, it’s not written by William Shakespeare. Well, you can throw any reservations ...

Independent Shakespeare Co.’s production of “Doctor Faustus” was part of their annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. The theater troupe also produced Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in ...

Shakespeare and Marlowe benefit from a spot of theatrical magic, writes Joyce McMillan​ ...

WE doubt whether any popular legend has ever taken deeper root among the common people and spread farther in the world than the story of Dr. Faustus and his reckless compact with the Evil One. We do ...

Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a work of exile, written in the US (1943-47), a bold and sometimes terrifying retelling of the Faust legend through the life of a composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. When I ...

No longer able to bear to see himself age doctor Faust decides to put an end to his life But just as hes about to swallow the poison that will kill him the Devil enters the stage and makes him a deal ...

Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford University in 1966 of Christopher Marlowe's 400-year-old verse play.

Men stand in artfully geometric lines swathed in 50s Macs and stylish trilbys. We could be down on the waterfront but instead we are plunged into a sexy, clubbing version of Christopher Marlowe’s ...