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The story is about a man who sell his soul to the devil. He does this for power and control over what he wants. The play was set in the 1580's and was set in Europe, specially Italy and Germany. The play was also set and acted out in the Elizabethan period.Elizabethan theatre was performed by only male actors as females were not allowed to act. The plays were rarely performed two days in a row and the plays had a political message involved. They would also use masks just like Ancient Greek theatre but these mask had attached hair. This showed the audience if they were playing a female character or not.
* Character List for Dr. Faustus;
Faustus - The protagonist. Faustus is a brilliant sixteenth-century scholar from Wittenberg, Germany, whose ambition for knowledge, wealth, and worldly might makes him willing to pay the ultimate price—his soul—to Lucifer in exchange for supernatural powers. Faustus’s initial tragic grandeur is diminished by the fact that he never seems completely sure of the decision to forfeit his soul and constantly wavers about whether or not to repent. His ambition is admirable and initially awesome, yet he ultimately lacks a certain inner strength. He is unable to embrace his dark path wholeheartedly but is also unwilling to admit his mistake.
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Chorus - A character who stands outside the story, providing narration and commentary. The Chorus was customary in Greek tragedy.
Old Man - An enigmatic figure who appears in the final scene. The old man urges Faustus to repent and to ask God for mercy. He seems to replace the good and evil angels, who, in the first scene, try to influence Faustus’s behavior.
Good Angel - A spirit that urges Faustus to repent for his pact with Lucifer and return to God. Along with the old man and the bad angel, the good angel represents, in many ways, Faustus’s conscience and divided will between good and evil.
Evil Angel - A spirit that serves as the counterpart to the good angel and provides Faustus with reasons not to repent for sins against God. The evil angel represents the evil half of Faustus’s conscience.
Lucifer - The prince of devils, the ruler of hell, and Mephastophilis’s master.
Wagner - Faustus’s servant. Wagner uses his master’s books to learn how to summon devils and work magic.
Clown - A clown who becomes Wagner’s servant. The clown’s antics provide comic relief; he is a ridiculous character, and his absurd behavior initially contrasts with Faustus’s grandeur. As the play goes on, though, Faustus’s behavior comes to resemble that of the clown.
Robin - An ostler, or innkeeper, who, like the clown, provides a comic contrast to Faustus. Robin and his friend Rafe learn some basic conjuring, demonstrating that even the least scholarly can possess skill in magic. Marlowe includes Robin and Rafe to illustrate Faustus’s degradation as he submits to simple trickery such as theirs.
Rafe - An ostler, and a friend of Robin. Rafe appears as Dick (Robin’s friend and a clown) in B-text editions of Doctor Faustus.
Valdes and Cornelius - Two friends of Faustus, both magicians, who teach him the art of black magic.
Horse-courser - A horse-trader who buys a horse from Faustus, which vanishes after the horse-courser rides it into the water, leading him to seek revenge.
The Scholars - Faustus’s colleagues at the University of Wittenberg. Loyal to Faustus, the scholars appear at the beginning and end of the play to express dismay at the turn Faustus’s studies have taken, to marvel at his achievements, and then to hear his agonized confession of his pact with Lucifer.
The pope - The head of the Roman Catholic Church and a powerful political figure in the Europe of Faustus’s day. The pope serves as both a source of amusement for the play’s Protestant audience and a symbol of the religious faith that Faustus has rejected.
Emperor Charles V - The most powerful monarch in Europe, whose court Faustus visits.
Knight - A German nobleman at the emperor’s court. The knight is skeptical of Faustus’s power, and Faustus makes antlers sprout from his head to teach him a lesson. The knight is further developed and known as Benvolio in B-text versions ofDoctor Faustus; Benvolio seeks revenge on Faustus and plans to murder him.
Bruno - A candidate for the papacy, supported by the emperor. Bruno is captured by the pope and freed by Faustus. Bruno appears only in B-text versions of Doctor Faustus.
Duke of Vanholt - A German nobleman whom Faustus visits.
Martino and Frederick - Friends of Benvolio who reluctantly join his attempt to kill Faustus. Martino and Frederick appear only in B-text versions of Doctor Faustus.
Source: Website
Date of Post published: - Edited on 27th January 2014
Name of page: Wikipedia
Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust
Date Assessed on: 2nd October 2014
Source: Website
Date of Post published: -
Name of page: Spark Notes
Available from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doctorfaustus/characters.html
Date Assessed on: 2nd October 2014
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Learning the Script:
Learning the script was tricky because the language was what i was used and the words were hard to produce and say.The language of the text was hard to understand at first but when I started to act it out with directions for the director I started to learn my role a lot more.The rhythm of which the text was written and meant to spoken in was iambic pentameter.Overall i found learning and remembering the script got easier as it went along and i knew what i was saying and i understood what i was acting out and trying to portray.
Character One - PrideVery confident character, very loud and proud.
Evaluating the Final Performance:The staging look like this...
SELF - EVALUATION
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Strengths
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Weakness
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Use of volume in my voice in both scenes.
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Remembering the lines/text.
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Staying focus throughout the whole performance.
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Mining in the beginning section - could of had more of a structure/blocking.
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Carried on with the performance when problems accrued in scene playing the Pope.
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Could of been more confident when delivering lanes.
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Covering up any mistakes in the scene playing the Pope.
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Ending i completing got into the character of the Angry Sin.
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OTHERS - EVALUATION
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Strengths
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Weakness
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Sax - Forgetting her lines! Bless her!!
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Sax - Forgetting the movement.
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Ellie - Use of pauses in her voice.
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Natalie - lack of volume in her voice.
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Our Faustus Performance
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