Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Title | Doctor Faustus and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-07-10 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780199537068 |
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Doctor Faustus - Second Edition
Title | Doctor Faustus - Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2007-02-12 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1770481184 |
Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. Most competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer’s fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto’s Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This edition has been updated and revised. Keefer’s critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources.
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Title | Doctor Faustus and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN | 9780192834454 |
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
The Tragicall History of D. Faustus...
Title | The Tragicall History of D. Faustus... PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1604 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Doctor Faustus(2/E 5/I)
Title | Doctor Faustus(2/E 5/I) PDF eBook |
Author | Marlowe Christopher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780195619270 |
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Title | Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus PDF eBook |
Author | Peter F. Mullany |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780671007171 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Title | The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2017-02-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781543146431 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them-that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.