This edition presents the 1604 "A-text," along with the 1592 text of The English Faust Book,
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; and the interpretive significance of variations between the "A" and "B" texts.
“Professor James Lake has done all Marlowe scholars and teachers of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama a great service in once again making available Irving Ribner's magnificent edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Ribner's edition was the finest of its era (the 1960s) and will find an eager audience in professors who prefer to use individual paperback editions of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries rather than huge, unwieldy anthologies. Lake's new introduction traces the history of the Faust legend, places Marlowe's play in its Renaissance context, and provides a brilliant survey of the fate of Marlowe's Faustus in production on stage, film, and opera. His range of reference is astounding and extends from Simon Magus to St. Theophilis to Goethe to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to Orson Welles to Charlie Daniels (The Devil Went Down to Georgia") and even to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. His introduction instructs even as it delights. Professor Samuel Crowl, Ohio University Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is a text used in a variety of college and university courses including great books courses, basic introductory courses in the history of drama, survey courses in the literature of the English renaissance, upper-division courses in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, senior seminars in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries or in the history of the Faust legend. Irving Ribner's edition of Marlowe was the finest of its generation and it will be most attractive to professors of broad survey courses in Western Liiterature and major courses in 16th Century drama to have his one-volume edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus once again in print. LAKE'S REISSUE Professor James Lake has done all Marlowe scholars and teachers of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama a great service in once again making available Irving Ribner's magnificent edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Ribner's edition was the finest of its era (the 1960s) and will find an eager audience in professors who prefer to use individual paperback editions of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries rather than huge, unwieldy anthologies. Lake's new introduction traces the history of the Faust legend, places Marlowe's play in its renaissance context, and provides a brilliant survey of the fate of Marlowe's Fautsus in production on stage, film, and opera. His range of reference is astounding and extends from Simon Magus to St. Theophilis to Goethe to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to Orson Welles to Charlie Daniels ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia")and even to a Calvin and Hobbbes cartoon. His introduction instructs even as it delights. Samuel Crowl Ohio University”
Professor James Lake has done all Marlowe scholars and teachers of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama a great service in once again making available Irving Ribner's magnificent edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Ribner's edition was the finest of its era (the 1960s) and will find an eager audience in professors who prefer to use individual paperback editions of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries rather than huge, unwieldy anthologies. Lake's new introduction traces the history of the Faust legend, places Marlowe's play in its Renaissance context, and provides a brilliant survey of the fate of Marlowe's Faustus in production on stage, film, and opera. His range of reference is astounding and extends from Simon Magus to St. Theophilis to Goethe to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to Orson Welles to Charlie Daniels ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia") and even to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. His introduction instructs even as it delights. Professor Samuel Crowl, Ohio University Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is a text used in a variety of college and university courses including great books courses, basic introductory courses in the history of drama, survey courses in the literature of the English renaissance, upper-division courses in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, senior seminars in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries or in the history of the Faust legend. Irving Ribner's edition of Marlowe was the finest of its generation and it will be most attractive to professors of broad survey courses in Western Liiterature and major courses in 16th Century drama to have his one-volume edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus once again in print. LAKE'S REISSUE Professor James Lake has done all Marlowe scholars and teachers of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama a great service in once again making available Irving Ribner's magnificent edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Ribner's edition was the finest of its era (the 1960s) and will find an eager audience in professors who prefer to use individual paperback editions of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries rather than huge, unwieldy anthologies. Lake's new introduction traces the history of the Faust legend, places Marlowe's play in its renaissance context, and provides a brilliant survey of the fate of Marlowe's Fautsus in production on stage, film, and opera. His range of reference is astounding and extends from Simon Magus to St. Theophilis to Goethe to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to Orson Welles to Charlie Daniels ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia")and even to a Calvin and Hobbbes cartoon. His introduction instructs even as it delights. Samuel Crowl Ohio University
James H. Lake (Ph.D. University of Delaware) is Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and has been appointed to the faculty of the Greco Institute. He has served as Director of the LSUS Joys of Learning Humanities Seminars for the Elderly, Director of the University's Honors Program and Director of the LSUS Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program. He has served on numerous boards, including the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Board of Directors of the Noel Foundation, and the editorial board of Shakespeare and the Classroom. He has published widely on Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Film, has edited the Focus-on- Performance edition of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and is the Series Editor for the New Kittredge Shakespeare.
Christopher Marlowe's play "Dr. Faustus" that includes features of the text : Notes on the page highlighted for emphasis Interviews on performance issues Illustrations of theater, movie stills Emphasis on the work in performance Full up-to-date bibliography Discussion questions Interview with Ralph Alan Cohen on Performance of Doctor Faustus Interview with Andreas Teuber on being Mephistopheles in Burton's Faustus Special section on performance
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.
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