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Christopher marlowe s doctor faustus survives in two considerably different versions. Fausto s life and death was a german folk tale by christopher marlowe. The story of faustus and the general motif of a faustian bargain giving up ones soul for limitless. Early enactments of fausts damnation were often the raffish fare of clowns and low comedians.
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