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The original Elizabethan play by Christopher Marlowe, the Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, based on the German legend of the man who risked damnation for the sake of absolute knowledge. Edited and annotated by John D. Harris, its spelling and punctuation modernized, supplemental text... Read Full Overview

"The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus," more commonly referred to as "Dr. Faustus," is Christopher Marlowe's version of the famous legend of a doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Based on the German legend of... Read Full Overview

Dr Faustus, first published in 1604 long after Christopher Marlowe had died (in 1593) and then published in an expanded version in 1616, has long fascinated readers and scholars alike as one of the great puzzles in Renaissance English drama. Marlowe himself was highly controversial... Read Full Overview

'...make me immortal with a kiss' Doctor Faustus is a play about desire: for the best in life, for knowledge, power, material comfort, and influence. Faustus sells his soul to the devil hoping to learn the secrets of the universe, but is fobbed off with explanations which he... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries.

This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments... Read Full Overview

This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments... Read Full Overview

""Dr. Faustus"" is a play written by Christopher Marlowe in the late 16th century. The play follows the story of a German scholar named Faustus who becomes disillusioned with his life and turns to magic and necromancy in a desperate attempt to find greater knowledge and power... Read Full Overview

Christopher Marlowe, based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power, experience, pleasure and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance... Read Full Overview