Volume II: Dr Faustus (Oxford English Texts) - Hardcover

Marlowe, Christopher

 
9780198127697: Volume II: Dr Faustus (Oxford English Texts)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198127693 ISBN 13: 9780198127697
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1990

Synopsis

Despite the modern fascination with Marlowe, and in particular with Dr Faustus, there has been no edition of his works which offers original spelling, full textual apparatus, and a detailed commentary. The Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, edited in three volumes, supplies the need for a fully annotated scholarly treatment of the works.

The present volume is devoted to Dr Faustus, which is now edited from the edition of 1604. A new theory of this text and its transmission is presented in an introductory essay, `Dr Faustus, the Textual Problem'; the play is critically discussed in another essay, `Dr Faustus, the Real Problem'. Differing theories of the text are outlined in an appendix, and another appendix selects the substantial passages which make the 1616 edition of the play unlike the 1604 version. Extracts from The English Faustbook, the main source of Marlowe's play, are also appended, and there is a full commentary.

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About the Author

Editor of ten texts in the Oxford School Shakespeare and The Plays of Christopher Marlowe (OUP 1971). Formerly a General Editor of the New Mermaid Texts, and Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield

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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198127693
ISBN 13 
9780198127697
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
184
Editor
Gill Roma