Merissa Bartlett

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Plot and subplot Merissa Bartlett

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 80.00, Memorial University of Newfoundland, course: English 2002, language: English, abstract: Christopher Marlowe's famous play Doctor Faustus is, by Aristotle's definition, a tragedy (McManus, 2013). Along with the tragic main plot of the play there is a comic, less serious subplot as well. This essay will aid to show how the tragic main plot of Doctor Faustus interacts with the play's humorous subplot, the relation between the two plots, and how the occurrence of this subplot makes the play even more tragic.