150: The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Christopher Marlowe was a contemporary of Shakespeare's, and he wrote poorly. Specifically, he wrote eponymous play for this episode. Not only that but SPY STUFF?!?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know a podcast about stuff that is classical.
0:12.8	It's in the title. It's pretty straightforward. My name is Thomas Magby. I am joined as always by
0:17.2	Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hi. And Mr. A.J. Hannanburg. This guy.
0:25.6	And as a matter of fact, this guy will be leaving our discussion today of a certain doctor.
0:27.3	We're going to be talking about the medical field today.
0:32.1	We're going to talk about leeches and bleeding and all kinds of fun stuff.
0:34.0	All of that is wrong, but you're close. So close. So today, do you guys know, like I imagine because you're educated men that you know
0:41.6	who Faust is.
0:43.6	Sure.
0:45.0	He's like a doctor.
0:45.5	Sells the soul who's devil.
0:46.6	Yeah.
0:47.3	So you guys actually know things.
0:49.0	Whenever I heard the name Faust, it was entangled weirdly with the name Proust, and I thought he was
0:55.9	some inaccessible author that I would probably never read and that people did their doctorates
1:00.5	upon. And so somebody would say that something was Faustian, and I had no idea what that means.
1:05.4	And there was no purchase in my mind for what that was. So there are a few things that to me are like academic unicorns.
1:13.0	One of them is Faust. One of them is Proust. And one is Ulysses by what's his name?
1:19.0	James Joyce. James Joyce. So Joyce is the other one that I'm like, someday I will climb into
1:23.3	James Joyce and figure it out. But today is my first jump into Faust.
1:27.8	Different than Feist.
1:29.0	Different than Feist.
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