Dr. Faustus was a degree holder in theology and he was well known in his country. People admire him. He was fond of learning and gaining more knowledge about the world and the life. He found a some books about necromantic in his collection and about thinking for some time he found them interesting and casted spell to call Lucifer (Satan) to gain worldly sensuous powers and sold his soul to Devil for twenty four years of blasphemous life, full of vain and sensuous pleasure. Summary Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic, medicine, law, and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic. His friends Valdes and Cornelius instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephistopheles, a devil. Despite Mephistopheles’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exc...