Dr. Faustus
Marlowe wrote the first great English tragedy about ambition — a scholar who trades his soul for knowledge and power and discovers too late that the price is real.
“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
Why It Matters
Marlowe wrote the first great English tragedy about ambition — a scholar who trades his soul for knowledge and power and discovers too late that the price is real. It is the play that proved English drama could handle big philosophical questions, and it paved the way for everything Shakespeare would do. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" is still one of the most famous lines in English theater.
The 
Take
Personal reviewClassic concept but ultimately scenes don’t fit together that well. Not that great of events happen
Notable Quotes
“Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.”
“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place; for where we are is hell, and where hell is, there must we ever be.”