| Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? / Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! / Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! |
| —Faustus. |
| Christopher Marlowe |
Harvard Classics, Vol. 19, Part 2
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
The master of blank verse, Marlowe was the first to turn the Faustian myth into a morality play; it remains an apogee of Elizabethan drama.
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