Christopher Marlowe’s 'Doctor Faustus' is a notable example of a 'transition' play because it blends Elizabethan drama with which medieval form?
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Correct answer: The Morality Play
'Doctor Faustus' uses allegorical figures of the Good and Bad Angel — a hallmark of the medieval Morality Play. Marlowe adapts the psychomachia (battle for the soul) into a Renaissance tragedy of individual ambition, blending medieval allegory with Elizabethan drama.
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