Doctor Faustus A critical guide

by Deats, Sara Munson

• ISBN13: 9781847061379
• ISBN10: 1847061370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A comprehensive introduction to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction Timeline Introduction, Sara Munson Deats (University of South Florida, USA) 1. The Critical Backstory, Bruce T. Brandt (South Dakota State University, USA) 2. The Performance History, David Bevington (University of Chicago, USA) 3. The State of the Art - Current Critical Research, Robert A. Logan (University of Hartford, USA) 4. New Directions: Doctor Faustus and Renaissance Hermeticism, Andrew Duxfield (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 5. New Directions: Imperialism as Devilry: A Postcolonial Analysis of Doctor Faustus, Toni Francis ( The College of the Bahamas) 6. New Directions: "What means this show?" Directing a Student Faustus, Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)7. New Directions: The Other Black Arts: Doctor Faustus and the Inky Words of Printing and Writing Georgia Brown (London, UK) 8. A Survey of Resources, Sarah K. Scott (Mount St. Mary's University, USA) Notes on Contributors Index