#doctor faustus

[wehavekookies]

Slow morning today so I filled a meme.

#victoro di terzo #doctor faustus #mr twardowski #vincent price #the addams family #daniil dankovsky #gustavo fring

[seffius]

The love interest when an mlm romance is written by a straight woman:

A prince

A high school boy

The boy next door

The love interest when an mlm romance is written by a gay man:

An artificially intelligent computer

Artist you killed after commissioning a portrait

The demon who owns your soul

A hallucination <3

#insane the way i keep reading books like this #in order: #2001 a space odyssey #the picture of dorian gray #doctor faustus #fight club #bookblr

[watchfuldeer]

succession 1.03 | heart of a dog - mikhail bulgakov | 1.04 | doctor faustus - christopher marlowe | 1.05 | 1.06 | the talented mr ripley (1999) - dir. anthony minghella | the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde | 2.10 | heart of a dog | 2.09 | rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead - tom stoppard | 3.07 | doctor faustus | 3.09

#tomgreg #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #succession #succession meta #web weaving #i think whatever's going on with greg's soul is like more important to me than my own at this point #posting this just in time for nobody to see #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #christopher marlowe #doctor faustus #meta on meta

[weirdbird74]

I could've sworn I read somewhere that "sweet" in Elizabethan parlance is essentially the Old English version of "queer". I can't find any reliable sources to back up that claim but if that context is to be believed, Faust calling Meph "sweet mephistopheles" gives off the same vibes as "gay bowser"

#doctor faustus #hot faust summer #birdy's faust autism tag

[ruchirarambles7]

Wherever you are is my Heaven.

"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."

That was really well played, Good Omens 2. Loved that particular turn of phrase.

#actors #writers #television #good omens #gabriel #belzebubs #ineffable bureaucracy #neil gaiman #doctor faustus #christopher marlowe #inferno

[alexanderpearce]

#dont know what came over me #like i had a vision. sorry #shut up ulrike #christopher marlowe #kit marlowe #edward ii #doctor faustus #popular

[gellertalbus]

So, Faustus, you have signed your deed. Ask thy questions. Tell me, Mephistopheles, what good will my soul do thy lord?

kit marlowe every frame challenge (7/?)

#probably my favorite scene #his look here is chef kiss #also very very gellert of him #kit marlowe every frame: the unholy collection #kit marlowe renaissance #will tnt #doctor faustus #jamie campbell bower #christopher marlowe #kit marlowe #jamie bower #henry creel #vecna #gellert grindelwald #001 #caius #jace herondale

[shredsandpatches]

So this afternoon while I was waiting for some files to transfer I read the Google Books preview of Magus by Anthony Grafton, a new book (it seems sort of scholarly/popular crossover) on the cultural significance of the magician in Renaissance Europe, and of course, as one might expect, the intro chapter focuses on the Faust legend as a case study. It looks like a pretty good book but I mostly wanted to share this anecdote related in it, which I hadn't seen before (the footnotes, alas, were cut off, so I'm not sure of the source; it's not in the English Faustbuch which iirc is a pretty direct translation of Spiers 1587) but is instantly one of my favorites:

Once, at a gathering of scholars, Faust offered to conjure up a bunch of lost classical plays, so that the scholars might copy them down. The scholars were, of course, tempted--who wouldn't want to recover lost knowledge? But then they concluded that, while the plays were in whatever sort of textual afterlife lost classical plays go to, demons could have tampered with them, and who knows what kind of ungodly things they could have put in there? And so, displaying a truly frightening amount of willpower, they respectfully declined.

I love that so much: the focus on lost classical knowledge as a site of temptation, the idea of dramatic/literary texts as something that can be summoned, the idea that surviving texts by classical pagans are totally fine but lost ones are vulnerable to demonic tampering--I also love versions of Faust who are (or at least were at one point) actually serious about scholarship on some level. I think Marlowe (a Cambridge man) was the first to really get into that idea, of Faustus as a legitimate but discontented academic, and I think he would have liked that story. He did make his Faustus ask:

When I was doing my first Master's degree I studied Doctor Faustus with the late, great Renaissance drama scholar David Bevington, at a point in my life where I was trying to treat serious undiagnosed depression with observant Catholicism, and his empathetic treatment of the play has always stayed with me. He asked us: can any of us say we wouldn't be at least a little tempted? And I've always remembered that.

#doctor faustus #hot faust summer #faustus georg #also the line 'made music with my mephistophilis' is just #it's so sweet! #tumblr keeps trying to flag this post as mature content #idek why #since when have i ever been mature

[skeleton-richard]

Men will literally summon demons instead of going to therapy

#faust #goethe faust #doctor faustus

[bootyduke]

I think that Lucifer being in love with God makes all of existence the most tragic heartbreak we can imagine. When the devil speaks of the divine, it must be through tears. When Hozier said, "Do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, Love, I still carry for you?" and John Milton lied, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven," and Christopher Marlowe said, "Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?" I think they were saying the same thing

#hozier #milton #marlowe #andrew hozier byrne #john milton #christopher marlowe #unreal unearth #doctor faustus #paradise lost

[fata-vocant]

wanting so badly: a shirt that says “I sold my soul to the devil and all I got was 24 years”

#maybe with homo fuge on the back #i really really want this. to come out for the curtain speech and just. what a tonesetter yknow #doctor faustus #screams from the abyss

[mushroomslovesyou]

coward

#the tragical history of doctor faustus #doctor faustus #christopher marlowe #this is the funniest thing ive read on jstor #yammering

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

this is what the submitter had to say about it:

here is my favorite book!!! It's a little slow for like the first 50 pages but don't worry, there's more than 550 more to go! After that point it turns into a horrifying, genteel, massive train crash moving in microscopically slow motion with each little tiny piece so visible you can't look away, but you also can't see the train until like the very last part of the book so you only see the crash for the longest time. So tragic and so riveting!

#doctor faustus #thomas mann #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls #germans can't keep it short exhibit b

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Amazing Spider-Man #170 (July, 1977) Art by Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, and Danny Crespi

#Marvel #Comics #Spider-Man #Amazing Spider-Man #Peter Parker #Doctor Faustus #Johann Fennhoff #Doctor Octopus #Green Goblin #Man-Wolf

[velvetkisses28]

All the gays of the Classics ever did, was to make pacts wth the devil, indulge in hedonism, and die dramatically

#doctor faustus #dorian gray #christopher marlowe #oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray #dorian gray memes #light academia #be gay do crimes #dracula #bram stoker #lord byron

[lavinaigrette]

Thinking about that time Faustus told a literal demon from hell that it was ugly and needed to shapeshift before rooming with him.

#doctor faustus