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Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
by
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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PRODUCED BY OXFORD
THEATRE GUILD
December 2013
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SETTING: TV STUDIO
CHARACTERS: Chorus
[EXIT.]
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SETTING: xxx
[Reads.]
[Reads.]
[Reads.]
Ha!
Stipendium, &c.
[Reads.]
nobis veritas;
consequently die:
Enter WAGNER.
[EXIT.]
SETTING: XXXXX
[EXEUNT ANGELS.]
SETTING: XXXXX
NOTES: xxx
FAUSTUS: Then come and dine with me, and, after meat,
[EXEUNT.]
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SETTING: XXXXX
NOTES: xxx
SECOND SCHOLAR: That shall we know, for see, here comes his
boy.
ENTER WAGNER.
where he is.
my dear brethren!47
[EXIT.]
[Exeunt.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
ENTER MEPHISTOPHILIS.
EXIT MEPHISTOPHILIS.
MEPHIST: In hell.
FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
[Exit.]
[Exit.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
CLOWN: Ay, and goings out too; you may see else.
WAGNER: Well, wilt thou serve me, and I'll make thee
go like
your living.
[GIVES MONEY.]
warning, whensoever
[EXEUNT DEVILS.]
nostris insistere.
[EXIT.]
[EXIT.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
[EXEUNT ANGELS.]
FAUSTUS: Of wealth!
ENTER MEPHISTOPHILIS.
do thy lord?
[EXIT.]
stay'd!
[WRITES.]
[ASIDE.]
withal,
FAUSTUS: Ay, take it, and the devil give thee good
on't!
be damn'd?
one.
[EXIT.]
MEPHIST: Tell me, Faustus, how dost thou like thy wife?
[GIVES BOOK.]
[TURNS TO THEM.]
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dispositions.
[TURNS TO THEM.]
the earth.
[TURNS TO THEM.]
[EXEUNT ANGELS.]
And, Faustus,
FAUSTUS: But, tell me, have they all one motion, both
situ et
tempore?
FAUSTUS: Tush,
MEPHIST: Ay.
heaven.
[EXIT.]
GOOD ANGEL: Repent, and they shall never raze thy skin.
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[Exeunt ANGELS.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
LUCIFER: I am Lucifer,
Of his creation.
arras.
my father.
king's ransom.
Come, Mephistophilis.
[EXEUNT.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
ENTER CHORUS.
[Exit.]
SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
of Milan.
of Florence.
and candle.
[They sing.]
maledicat Dominus!
maledicat Dominus!
maledicat Dominus!
Maledicat Dominus!
Maledicat Dominus?
SETTING: xxxxx
Enter CHORUS.
[Exit.]
ROBIN: Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up,
you are
of work.
not read?
devil's name.
[Exeunt.]
Enter VINTNER.
[Searches ROBIN.]
of truth.
to RALPH].
goblet.
Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS.
be gone?
[Exit.]
[Exeunt.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
[Aside.]
[Aside.]
[Aside.]
[Exit MEPHISTOPHILIS.]
[Exit.]
[Exeunt Spirits.]
[Exit ATTENDANT.]
ATTENDANTS.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
Enter a HORSE-COURSER.
him.
me.
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me what it is?
[Exit HORSE-COURSER.]
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I do?
forty
dollars more!
SETTING: xxxxx
ENTER WAGNER.
company.
[Exeunt.]
me.
of ripe grapes.
[Exeunt.]
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SETTING: xxxxx
NOTES: xxx
Enter WAGNER.
[Exit.]
FAUSTUS: Gentlemen,
[Exeunt SCHOLARS.]
[Exit.]
Re-enter HELEN.
[Exeunt.]
Enter DEVILS.
SETTING: xxxxx
over-solitary.
and soul.
FIRST SCHOLAR: Tempt not God, sweet friend; but let us into
the
FAUSTUS: Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise
soever
SECOND SCHOLAR: Pray thou, and we will pray that God may have
I'll visit
SETTING: xxxxx
ACTORS: Alpha, Beta, Lima, Foxtrot[During the final scene, I suggest that
we clunk the lights out, just coming down to a tight spot, before blacking out at an
appropriate time, possibly "O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn
to air,", then run a thin line of flame on the video that
grows. We have the chorus on, of course. I think bring the
devils on from the audience. Vince has the idea that F is
dragged to hell up the entrance, but that we reverse the final
impression, so F is looking at us (the audience) but with the
audience projected. I think we possibly video the chorus from
the top of the stairs
No, no!
O God,
Enter DEVILS.
Enter CHORUS.
[Exit.]
CURTAIN