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Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book
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Product Description
This edition presents the 1604 "A-text," along with the 1592 text of The English Faust Book, both in modernized spelling and punctuation, and accompanied by notes. The editor’s Introduction discusses Marlowe’s life; the social climate in which his play was staged and the religious sensibilities to which it ostensibly appealed; 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 dramatizing a story in which "orthodox Christian teaching triumphed, but in which Faustus has all the best lines."
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #107278 in Books
- Published on: 2005-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 154 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.
Customer Reviews
Two books on Dr Faustus for the price of one!
It is just so convenient to have both the 1604 A-text of Marlowe's Dr.Faustus bound with The English Faust Book. It is in that sense an ideal undergraduate text enabling students to make proper comparisons with a source and thereby to see how Marlowe has rendered the narrative into dramatic form. And anyway the Faust Book is great fun in itself.
The editorial material, introduction and notes are also thorough and valuable though in part they might be said to favour someone who has existing knowledge of other editions and writings on Marlowe.
And finally, for price, it is perfectly accessible.
So thank you to David Wootton and the Hackett Publishing Company for providing such usable materials.
good choice for college students
Excellent price, helpful footnotes, detailed introduction, and the inclusion of the English Faust Book make this a great choice for college students working on the Faust myth or Christopher Marlowe's works.
If you're reading it for the Faust tale, be sure to read Goethe's for comparison. Then pick up Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend.
