"Macbeth" ( Shakespeare ), "Doctor Faustus" ( Christopher Marlowe ) & "Prodigious Magician" ( Calderon De La Barca ) Comparison Essay by The Research Group
"Macbeth" ( Shakespeare ), "Doctor Faustus" ( Christopher Marlowe ) & "Prodigious Magician" ( Calderon De La Barca )
Compares tragedies' depictions of evil & personal responsibility.
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Drama and Theater
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, Literature
(English)
, Shakespeare
(MacBeth)
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"Visions of evil operating in this world serve as the subject mater for the dramatist, especially in an era when good and evil were seen more clearly as battling for the human soul directly, often personified as angel and devil. In the Elizabethan era, William Shakespeare in Macbeth and Christopher Marlowe in Doctor Faustus in England explored these issues in different ways, though each saw evil as manifest and physical as well as sometimes supernatural. In Spain, Calderon de la Barca a few years later similarly expressed the palpable nature of evil in human life in his El magico prodigioso. The Marlowe and Calderon works are both based on the Faust legend, while Shakespeare's play is based on a historical individual reported in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, though Shakespeare took many liberties with history as Holinshed presented it. The historical Macbeth.."Cite this Comparison Essay:
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