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Faustus was intended to follow up the design, which may almost be said to have been accomplished in Tamburlaine, and to establish the use of blank-verse on the public stage. Here the poet, wishing to astonish, and to delight by astonishing, has called in the aid of magic and supernatural agency, and has wrought from his materials, a drama full of power, novelty, interest, and variety. All the serious scenes of Faustus eminendy excite both pity and terror.
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Jump, J. (1969). John Payne Collier. In: Jump, J. (eds) Marlowe. Casebook Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-89053-8_9
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