Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1314 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Faustus's Last Hour
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The idea
Marlowe gives Faustus a soliloquy in the hour before his damnation. The clock strikes eleven as the scene opens, and he begins that he has but one bare hour to live and then must be damned perpetually. The speech is timed from its first line.
In practice
One hour, and a clock already struck.
Where people slip
The speech is timed from the start.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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