The Character of Faustus

• George Santayana - "Faustus is a martyr to everything that the Renaissance prized"
• Nicholas Brookes - "Faustus was actually a mouthpiece for Marlowe's true atheist beliefs"
• Joseph T. McCullen - "Faustus possesses a culpable ignorance"
• Jonathan Dollimore - "In Dr Faustus, sin is not the error of Fallen Judgement but a conscious and deliberate transgression of limit"