The aim of this lesson was to introduce students to the idea that Marlowe's Faustus is a delicious slice of drama that mixes crude slapstick and sexual innuendo with pungent symbolism and metaphysical debate. As the session concluded, one student uttered the phrase: 'this play is mental'. Aim achieved.
Students were familiarised with the opening Five scenes of the play.
Homework: Download the audio version and listen to the complete play. We will be discussing Scenes 5 to 10 in the next session.
Click on link below to access Jan Svankmajer's interpretation of the evocation scene. WARNING: it is a bit bonkers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c_fm7oNUi4&feature=related
Below is a link to the evocation scene from the 1926 silent film version of the play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCfNFckx6Q
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