Doctor John Faustus has reached and expanded the limits of human knowledge. In search of a deeper understanding of the universe and its laws, all that's left to do is to turn to the supernatural. So, ...

What price learning? For Doctor Faustus (David Bennett) it is everything, even his very soul. Written in the early 17 th century, and adapted here by David Fletcher, the play reflects the birth of the ...

Yet it doesn’t take long, when sitting in the candlelit intimacy of the Sam Wanamaker theatre, to work out how utterly apt it is to make a character who seeks forbidden knowledge female. There is, ...

Faustus (Richard Burton) is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure ...

What was billed as the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus turned out to be the Comical History; whether for better or for worse, it is hard to say. I am tempted to say for the worse. The play offers a ...