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Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book (Hackett Classics) Available To Downloads
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.
Series: Hackett Classics
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; 3.2.2005 edition (March 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0872207293
ISBN-13: 978-0872207295
Product Dimensions:  0.5 x 5.5 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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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.
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.
How can one not give 5 stars to Marlowe's classic play?But what makes this edition great is the inclusion of the English Faust Book; an English version of the prose German account of the Faust legend. Here you will find many more details of the story that Marlowe leaves out. Neat grisly stuff!
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