EAN: 9780393977547

DOCTOR FAUSTUS - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE DAVID SCOT...

This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions
of the play  each with detailed explanatory annotations. Sources and Contexts includes a
generous selection from Marlowe's main source  The Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John
Faustus  along with contemporary writings on magic and religion (including texts by Agrippa 
Calvin  and Perkins) that establish the play's intellectual background. This volume also
reprints early documents relating to the writing and publication of the play and to its first
performances  along with contemporary comments on Marlowe's scandalous reputation. Twenty-five
carefully chosen interpretations-written from the eighteenth century to the present-allow
students to enrich their critical understanding of the play. These diverse critical essays
include classic analyses by Charles Lamb  William Hazlitt  and A. C. Swinburne  among others 
and recent criticism from  among others  Michael Neill  Katharine Eisaman Maus  Alison Findlay
Stephen Orgel  and David Bevington. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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