{"product_id":"2940014250399","title":"THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS","description":"DRAMATIS PERSONAE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE POPE.\u003cbr\u003e     CARDINAL OF LORRAIN.\u003cbr\u003e     THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.\u003cbr\u003e     DUKE OF VANHOLT.\u003cbr\u003e     FAUSTUS.\u003cbr\u003e     VALDES,    ] friends to FAUSTUS.\u003cbr\u003e     CORNELIUS, ]\u003cbr\u003e     WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS.\u003cbr\u003e     Clown.\u003cbr\u003e     ROBIN.\u003cbr\u003e     RALPH.\u003cbr\u003e     Vintner.\u003cbr\u003e     Horse-courser.\u003cbr\u003e     A Knight.\u003cbr\u003e     An Old Man.\u003cbr\u003e     Scholars, Friars, and Attendants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     DUCHESS OF VANHOLT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     LUCIFER.\u003cbr\u003e     BELZEBUB.\u003cbr\u003e     MEPHISTOPHILIS.\u003cbr\u003e     Good Angel.\u003cbr\u003e     Evil Angel.\u003cbr\u003e     The Seven Deadly Sins.\u003cbr\u003e     Devils.\u003cbr\u003e     Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour\u003cbr\u003e          and of HELEN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Chorus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM THE QUARTO OF 1604.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          Enter CHORUS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHORUS. Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene,\u003cbr\u003e     Where Mars did mate[1] the Carthaginians;\u003cbr\u003e     Nor sporting in the dalliance of love,\u003cbr\u003e     In courts of kings where state is overturn'd;\u003cbr\u003e     Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds,\u003cbr\u003e     Intends our Muse to vaunt[2] her[3] heavenly verse:\u003cbr\u003e     Only this, gentlemen,--we must perform\u003cbr\u003e     The form of Faustus' fortunes, good or bad:\u003cbr\u003e     To patient judgments we appeal our plaud,\u003cbr\u003e     And speak for Faustus in his infancy.\u003cbr\u003e     Now is he born, his parents base of stock,\u003cbr\u003e     In Germany, within a town call'd Rhodes:\u003cbr\u003e     Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went,\u003cbr\u003e     Whereas[4] his kinsmen chiefly brought him up.\u003cbr\u003e     So soon he profits in divinity,\u003cbr\u003e     The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd,\u003cbr\u003e     That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name,\u003cbr\u003e     Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes\u003cbr\u003e     In heavenly matters of theology;\u003cbr\u003e     Till swoln with cunning,[5] of a self-conceit,\u003cbr\u003e     His waxen wings did mount above his reach,\u003cbr\u003e     And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow;\u003cbr\u003e     For, falling to a devilish exercise,\u003cbr\u003e     And glutted now[6] with learning's golden gifts,\u003cbr\u003e     He surfeits upon cursed necromancy;\u003cbr\u003e     Nothing so sweet as magic is to him,\u003cbr\u003e     Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss:\u003cbr\u003e     And this the man that in his study sits.\u003cbr\u003e          [Exit.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          FAUSTUS discovered in his study.[7]","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182517403888,"sku":"2940014250399","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014250399_p0.jpg?v=1763604098","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014250399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}