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Doctor Faustus with The English Faust Book - Softcover

Christopher Marlowe

 
9780872207295: Doctor Faustus with The English Faust Book
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0872207293 ISBN 13: 9780872207295
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

This edition of Doctor Faustus features annotated versions, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1604 A-text and the 1592 text of Marlowe's source, the English Faust Book--a translation of the best-selling Historia von Johann Fausten published in Frankfurt in 1587, which recounts the strange story of Doctor John Faustus and his pact with the spirit Mephistopheles.

David Wootton's Introduction charts Marlowe's brief, meteoric career; the delicate social and political climate in which Doctor Faustus was staged and the vexed question of the religious sensibilities to which it may have catered; the interpretive significance of variations between the A and B texts; and the shrewd and subversive uses to which Marlowe put the English Faust Book in crafting, according to Wootton, a drama in which orthodox Christian teaching triumphed, but in which Faustus has all the best lines.

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About the Author

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.

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Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0872207293
ISBN 13 
9780872207295
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
192
Editor
David Wootton