Universities in the Northeast take great delight in staging Elizabethan dramas. This is one of the cultural aspects which universities in the Northeast emphasize. It is a way of giving aspiring young actors and actresses some practical experience on the stage and it is a way of taking classical literature out of the boredom of the classroom and making it come alive in the minds of students as they watch it performed on the stage.

Perhaps, one of the greatest of the Elizabethan dramas is Christopher Marlowe’s, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus is a drama about a man who is dissatisfied with the limits of his human knowledge and the power that is available to him. Doctor Faustus is a grand figure that is filled with desire and lust and he is chafing at the boundaries wh…