Using two plays, Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" and John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi", the paper
explores the
theater genres of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Through Marlowe's play, the paper
explores Elizabethan
theater and through Webster's play it studies Jacobean theater. The genres are looked at in the context of being considered the beginnings of the Renaissance and a shift from the Medieval period to a more human-centered view of the universe.