Weblinks and videos for use with 12372 – Doctor Faustus: Activity Pack for A Level
Background Activities
Discover Elizabethan Theatre – Presentation Task
- Elizabethan Theatre
- Elizabethan Theatre Facts
- English Renaissance Theatre
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Morality Play
- Medieval Drama: An Introduction to Middle English Plays
- English Civil War
Background Reading Discussion Topics
Elizabethan England
- Elizabethan Era
- Elizabethan Era
- Elizabethan England
- The Elizabethans Overview
- Early Elizabethan England (1558–88) – Timeline of Key Events
- Elizabeth's Spy Network
- The Puritans
Religion in Tudor England
Popular Representations of the Devil and the Bargain
- Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle
- Robert Johnson Blues Foundation Crossroad:
Walk-through Activities
Scene I
Further Reading
Did You Know?
Scene II
Further Reading
Did You Know?
Scene III
Further Reading
Scene V
Further Reading
Scene VI
Context
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Suicide
- John Donne: Biathanatos: A Modern-Spelling Edition, With Introduction and Commentary
- Renaissance View
Further Reading
Did You Know?
Scene VII
Did You Know?
Scenes XV, XVI and XVII
Further Reading
Did You Know?
Whole-text Activities
Characterisation
Mephistophilis
- Mephistopheles
- Mephistopheles
- Devil in the arts and popular culture
- The Devil in Literature
- Satan and the origin of evil