Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide (Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847061389 ISBN 13: 9781847061386

Publisher: Continuum, 2009

Synopsis

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy.
This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, surveying notable stage productions from its initial performance in 1594 to the present and including Tv, audio and cinematic versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated biography provide a basis for further individual research.

About this title

About the Author

Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center of Applied Humanities at The University of South Florida, USA. She has published widely on Marlowe and Shakespeare, has served as President of the Marlowe Society of America, and in 1998 received the international Roma Gill Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Marlowe Scholarship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847061389
• ISBN 13: 9781847061386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Deats Sara