Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe: Frasi su tempo
Christopher Marlowe era poeta, drammaturgo. Esplorare le virgolette interessanti su tempo.“Le stelle ruotano, il tempo corre, l'orologio | suonerà, verrà il demonio e Faust sarà dannato.”
Christopher Marlowe, Il Dottor Faust, traduzione di Nemi D'Agostino, Ugo Guanda editore, 1980, atto V, scena II, vv. 1936-1937
La tragica storia del Dottor Faust
'Faustus: Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come.
La tragica storia del Dottor Faust, Atto V, Scena II
'Faustus: "O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!"<br ></ref> The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd.
O, I'll leap up to my God! — Who pulls me down? —
See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ! —
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!
Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer! —
Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!
La tragica storia del Dottor Faust, Atto V, Scena II
Origine: Verso ripreso da: Ovidio (Amores, I, 13, 40) (1994)