I see I'm a latecomer to your question; you've already quite a string of answers. Well, I'll just add one more layer to it for fun. If I have one choice from these plays as one that I like, it would be Dr. Faustus. Marlowe used Dr. Faustus to explore the consequences of the complex choice between the ultimate pursuit--in Faustus' case, perfect knowledge--and human integrity.
Faustus discovered that the promises of ultimate attainment and unwavering success eventually come face-to-face with the universal realities of what the Greeks called the Fates and Christians call powers and principalities and Faustus called Mephistopheles. The end knowledge--the ultimate knowledge--is that humankind is bound, hedged in, limited by the ultimate nature of the baryonic universe: all universal matter tends to decay and thus cannot limitlessly move forward.
Newton proved that a circle is a straight line bent into an adjacent direction by an incoming impetus force. With each consecutive bump, energy has the potential of being spent at a rate greater than that at which new energy is gained from the bump, decayed so that eventually the circle has the potential to grow smaller and smaller. This is a neat metaphor for the limitations inherent in the nature of the baryonic universe (maybe dark matter and dark energy don't decay...) that is mentioned above.
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