Doctor Faustus: Text and Performance (Text & Performance S.) - Softcover

Tydeman, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333343131 ISBN 13: 9780333343135

Publisher: Palgrave, 1984

Synopsis

Christopher Marlowe, based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power, experience, pleasure and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. It is the most controversial Elizabethan play outside of Shakespeare, with few critics coming to any agreement as to the date or the nature of the text. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk.

About this title

Review

"Michael Keefer's knowledge of this play and of its philosophical roots is unrivalled; he has produced exactly what we need." -- A.D. Nuttall, New College, Oxford University

About the Author

Ros King is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, and Director of the Centre of Medieval and Renaissance Culture. She is author of several books including The Winter's Tale, for Palgrave's Shakespeare Handbook Series and editor of Comedy of Errors for Cambridge's New Shakespeare Series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333343131
• ISBN 13: 9780333343135
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96