The English Faust Book
Title | The English Faust Book PDF eBook |
Author | John Henry Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011-03-03 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780521175036 |
A 1994 scholarly edition of a major Renaissance text linked with Marlowe's Dr Faustus.
Faustus and the Censor
Title | Faustus and the Censor PDF eBook |
Author | William Empson |
Publisher | Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1987-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780631156758 |
Analyzes Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, argues that the original text was subjected to religious censorship, and speculates on the original theme of the play
Doctor Faustus
Title | Doctor Faustus PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Marlowe |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2005-03-15 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1603840656 |
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.
The Faustus Myth in the English Novel
Title | The Faustus Myth in the English Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Şeyda Sivrioğlu |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2017-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1443862622 |
The Faustus myth, before being identified as a myth, was the folktale of a man named Faustus who lived in Germany. Underneath the popularity of this myth lies the basic human instinct to trespass the limits of traditional knowledge in pursuit of self-definition, authentic knowledge and power. This search and transgression also involve the desire to exercise the right of making free authentic choices. Faustus represents universal issues that are relevant for all human beings, which explains the reason why he has acquired mythic stature. Indeed, a most persistent myth has evolved, the appeal of which has led one writer after the other to reshape it. After his story became popular, he reappeared, even in contemporary culture, in different art forms such as literature, both high-brow and popular, including comics, the ballet and the opera. The real historical Faustus came onto the scene as a scholar and persistently reappeared in literature assuming different identities which, however, shared basically the same qualities. This book demonstrates and offers different perspectives to versions of the Faustus myth in literature: Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Goethe’s Faust and John Fowles’ The Magus. The Faustus Myth is a cycle which starts and ends in tragic circumstances in Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance Faustus, in salvation in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, and in meaninglessness, ambiguous collapses in John Fowles’ existentialist Nicholas Urfe.
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 |
Goethe's Faust
Title | Goethe's Faust PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
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.