Faustus

David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Goddard College, the Yale Drama School, and New York University, and lectures at the Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is the author of the plays The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He has also written screenplays for such films as House of Games and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict, as well as The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, and Wag the Dog. His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.

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Title of ebook: Faustus
ISBN: 9780307484710
parent-ISBN: 9781400076482
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08-2009
Released online for download: 08-19-2009
Author of eBook: Mamet, David

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Faustus

Chapter One

ACT ONE

At rise, we see the portico of FAUSTUS's home. Large double doors open onto a room hung with tinsel and streamers, a party scene gotten up as a fantasy.

FAUSTUS's wife is involved in decoration. FAUSTUS enters and looks around. Pause. He holds a sheet of paper in his hand.

FAUSTUS: It seems a very dream.

WIFE: It is a dream. Delightful, as it is temporary.

FAUSTUS: Temporary.

WIFE: How otherwise?

FAUSTUS: To what do you refer?

WIFE: Have I mistook you?

FAUSTUS: What is it you indict of transience?

WIFE: Of transience-the décor.

FAUSTUS: The décor, indeed.

WIFE: Which, you remark, will serve but the day's brief turn . . .

FAUSTUS: . . . of course . . .

WIFE: . . . divert the child, and then . . .

FAUSTUS: How is the boy?

WIFE: He would be thrilled to find you at this unaccustomed hour. What has released you . . . ?

FAUSTUS: . . . where is Fabian . . . ?

WIFE: I believe he marshals the festivities. I beg your pardon, are you anxious for his news?

FAUSTUS: What news?
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