1. What is the role, function, purpose of knowledge in Dr. Faustus?

2. Humanism “a view of life that displaces God and puts man at the centre of life” (Rivers 125). “secularization of learning” (128). “an educational movement...with two complementary aims: to recover the moral values of classical life, and to imitate the language and style of the classics” (125). Eloquence and wisdom are brought together.

3. Signs of humanism Return to Greek and Latin classical works (“the New Learning”) –Ovid –Virgil –Homer –Plato By the early 16 th century, these authors and others had been “recovered” after being “lost” in the medieval period.

4. Some of Marlowe’s classical references Icarus (Chorus 21) Musaeus (1.1.115) Jason and the Argonauts (1.1.130) Apollo (1.1.141) The Odyssey (1.5.151) Virgil (2.2.113) Homer (2.1.26) Amphion (2.1.30) Ovid (2.1.106; 5.2.130) Pluto and Hecate (3.3.21) Actaeon (4.2.49) Helen of Troy (5.1.13) Arethusa (5.1.112)

5. Main Tenets of Humanism A. Imitation B. Pragmatism C. Duty

6. “The reward of sin is death” (Romans 6.23). (Dr. Faustus 1.1.40)

7. “If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us” (1 John 1.8). (Dr. Faustus 1.1.42-43)

8. Faustus’ conclusion? “Why then, belike, we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die, an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this? Che sera, sera” (1.1.44-8).

9. “The reward of sin is death: but eternal life is the gift of God though Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6.23-4).

10. Calvin used this passage to prove that “salvation is entirely God’s decision” (Sinfield 355).

11. “If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. (1 John 1.8). (Dr. Faustus 1.1.42-43)

12. “If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. If we acknowledge our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar and his Word is not in us. ” (1 John 1.8-10). (Dr. Faustus 1.1.42-43)

13. “If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. If we acknowledge our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar and his Word is not in us. ” (1 John 1.8-10). (Dr Faustus 1.1.42-43) Tyndale used this passage to show that God decides whether to accept our confession/ repentance as genuine or not.

14. Mephostophilis: “’Twas I that, when thou wer’t i’ the way to heaven, Dammed up thy passage; when thou took’st the book To view the scriptures, then I turned the leaves And led thine eye” (5.2.81-4)

15. When was Faustus damned? When was it too late to repent?

16. When was Faustus damned? When was it too late to repent? Why did Marlowe make it so difficult to tell?

17. When was Faustus damned? When was it too late to repent? Why did Marlowe make it so difficult to tell? What, then, is Marlowe’s take on humanism, the Reformation, and Faustus?

18. The Baines’ Note (1592) “affirmeth that Moyses was but a Jugler” “the first beginning of Religioun was only to keep men in awe” “Christ was a bastard and his mother dishonest” “Christ deserved better to Dy than Barrrabas and that the Jews made a good Choise” “That all protestants are Hypocriticall asses” “That St. John the Evangelist was bedfellow to Christ” “That all they that love not Tobacco & Boies were fooles” “he perswades men to Atheism willing them not to be afeard of bugbeares and hobgoblins”