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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires
Doctor Faustus
- First published1604
- TraditionSolomonic Magic
- Shelf122 books
Marlowe's tragedy, first performed around 1592 and printed in 1604, dramatises the English translation of the German Faust book. Faustus signs away his soul for twenty-four years of Mephistopheles' service, and the play's final scene became the classic image of the damned magician.












