Word: faustus
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...Where we are is hell, and where hell is, must we ever be.” So wrote Christopher Marlowe for Doctor Faustus, though the line would be equally fitting for the wracked souls of his later work, Dido, Queen of Carthage...
...What makes a good translation? For Kamoun, it's being true to the author's voice. Averaging 10 pages a day, over the course of six or seven hours, she works in bed, with just the original text, her computer and her cat, Faustus. Once she finishes a first bulky draft, Kamoun puts it away for a while, then gives it an average of four revisions. While some translators will first read a book from cover to cover to get a sense of the work, Kamoun relies on spontaneity. "If [a book has] been well-received, I will read...
...potentially useful contacts dancing in our heads. Our crusades are personal and concrete; we know the dangers of idealism, and how little Don Quixote’s pasteboard visor offers. Our early modern literary avatar is not Cervantes’ daydreaming knight but Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, who, demon-beguiled, weighs profit against loss and trades his soul for fame and money...
...potato concoction served earlier at regular dinner. My own defining Cambridge moment took place at a private tutorial dinner at Corpus Christi College, when I was asked by the head tutor what I was reading in supervision. When I replied that I was in the middle of Dr. Faustus, she gestured to a portrait behind me, casually remarking, “Marlowe was a Corpus man, you know.” Awestruck, I turned around to look as I tried to extract my knife from difficult piece of turkey, which proceeded to fly across the table and land squarely...
...pleasure, but the inclusion of the touches of modernization is nonetheless slightly problematic. An understanding of McClelland's final vision counts more on some level than the exhibition of the play. I am not speaking of the portrayal but more of the device. But this criticism aside, Dr. Faustus was a thoroughly engaging piece that brought some of the highest possibilities of innovative theater back to the Loeb Experimental Theater...