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Article: Doctor Faustus and The Devil is an Ass.(Theater review)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Doctor Faustus and The Devil is an Ass. Presented by the Left-Handed Theatre Company at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London. February 28-March 26, 2006. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Presented by the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance and Theatre at the Anne R. Belk Theater, Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. April 18-22, 2007.
Probably, the Faustus theme has always pulled directors in two different directions--psychological realism on the one hand, spectacle on the other--but economic constraints and the focus of most Marlowe criticism usually combine to enforce a small-scale, perhaps allegorical ...