A great power of this work is its visual imaginative force.

Please react to Marlowe’s "mighty line" with some sort of creative or research interpretation of the work. Remember when you were little and you could do "shoe box" book reports? Well, get out the yarn and glitter!

1. Create a photo interpretation of a staging of the play.

2. Do a visual interpretation of Faustus. What does he look like?

3. Pick music to set the scene.

4. Give a symbolic representation of some aspect of the play.

5. Be a director-- cast the characters with modern actors!

6. Create a Faustus recipe! (Devil’s food cake, maybe?)

7. Pick a quote and illustrate it. ( There are some beautiful lines in this hellish play!)

8. Write a parody of the play.

9. Research some of the "ancestors" or successors to Dr. Faustus.

10.Research Elizabethan theater-- draw a picture, make a model.

11. Design a calling card or stationery for the esteemed Dr. Faustus. See the sample!

Celebrate the great poetry of the play!

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Author: Brenda Walton, Ed.D.
Orlando, Florida

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