Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus, performed by Oxford Theatre Guild, December 2013

Bored with study, Doctor Faustus looks for a short cut to infinite knowledge in his magic books and raises Satan s little helper, Mephistopheles, who joins the renegade scholar as they rampage across Europe. Faustus squanders the Devil s promised prize of knowing it all in his pursuit of shallow and hedonistic pleasures; after all, the payment demand for his immortal soul seems so insignificant. br, br,