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ENGL 2210 - Early British Literature - Essay 2: Christopher Marlowe & Doctor Faustus

Topic 1

1. Research the life of Christopher Marlowe. What biographical influences are present in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus?

Christopher Marlowe

Painting of Christopher Marlowe

By Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=240136

Doctor Faustus

Cover of the 1620 edition of The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

By Iohn Wright - en:Image:Faustus-tragedy.gif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2864717