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#The_Tragic_History_of_Dr._Faustus
#Christopher_Marlowe

#Doctor
#Faustus, a respected #German_scholar, is bored with the traditional types of
knowledge available to him. He wants more than logic, medicine, law, and
religion. He wants magic. His friends, Valdes and Cornelius, begin to teach him
magic, which he uses to summon a devil named #Mephistophilis. Faustus tells
Mephistophilis to return to his master, #Lucifer, with an offer of his soul in
exchange for twenty-four years of having Mephistophilis and all his #knowledge
of #magic at his beck and call.

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