SOURCE: "The Tragedy of Knowledge: Marlowe's Treatment of Faustus," in Quarterly Review of Literature, Vol. II, No. 4, 1945, pp. 316-32.
In the following essay, Heilman examines the tragic ramifications of Faustus's quest for knowledge.
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