{"id":4845,"date":"2024-02-07T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:50","slug":"adaptation-of-marlowes-faustus-to-open-april-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/adaptation-of-marlowes-faustus-to-open-april-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptation of Marlowe&#8217;s Faustus to open April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Annalisa Lewis <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH- Set to open on April 23, the birthday of Christopher Marlowe\u2019s rival William Shakespeare, Performing Arts Professor Anthony Tassa is directing an adaptation of Marlowe\u2019s play Faustus, an Elizabethan tragedy whose main character sells his soul for earthly glory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a cautionary tale,\u201d Tassa said during a January interview, \u201cas Faustus is a narcissist who wants to know everything and doesn\u2019t trust God which eventually brings about his downfall.\u201d The play has magic, supernatural elements, and a disturbed tragic hero making it a great horror story, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adapting the story and modernizing it was time-consuming but well worth the effort, said Tassa. To make it sound and feel more contemporary, he said he used a non-linear narrative centered on Faustus\u2019 final night. He also changed much of the language to make it modern by using updated terms and syntax. However, he said he retained the supernatural characters\u2019 language in Elizabethan English to help set them apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Annalisa Lewis UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH- Set to open on April 23, the birthday of Christopher Marlowe\u2019s rival William Shakespeare, Performing Arts Professor Anthony Tassa is directing an adaptation of Marlowe\u2019s play Faustus, an Elizabethan tragedy whose main character sells his soul for earthly glory. \u201cThis is a cautionary tale,\u201d Tassa said during a January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,46,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-4845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}