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Historia von D. Johann Fausten influenced The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Added by Media Influence Map · 16 October 2026
The influence
Historia von D. Johann Fausten
Book · 1587
The work it shaped
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Play · 1604
The evidence
Marlowe's play follows the English Faust Book, the 1592 translation of the German Historia, from Faustus's pact with Mephistopheles to his damnation.
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