Jonathan Bate's Literary Remains

Jonathan Bate's Literary Remains

The Mind Diseased and the Devil's Contract

Two Doctors: in Macbeth and Faustus

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Jonathan Bate
Jun 19, 2026
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The final two explorations of Macbeth consider “ministers to the mind diseased”: the figure of the doctor in the play, but then a contrast between that well-meaning doctor and the academic doctor: Marlowe’s Faustus. Questions of good and evil, hell within and below …

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