Doctor Faustus (Norton Critical Editions)

by Marlowe,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780393977547
• ISBN10: 0393977544
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781324043867
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-11
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

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. John Faustus , along with contemporary writings on magic and religion (including texts by Agrippa, Calvin, and Perkins) that establish the play's intellectual background. This volume also reprints early documents relating to the writing and publication of the play and to its first performances, along with contemporary comments on Marlowe's scandalous reputation. Twenty-five carefully chosen interpretations'”written from the eighteenth century to the present'”allow students to enrich their critical understanding of the play. These diverse critical essays include classic analyses by Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and A. C. Swinburne, among others, and recent criticism from, among others, Michael Neill, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Alison Findlay, Stephen Orgel, and David Bevington. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Editorial Procedures	xiii
Textual Notes	xiv
The Texts of Doctor Faustus	1	(126)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (A-Text, 1604)	5	(49)
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus (B-Text, 1616)	54	(73)
Sources and Contexts
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE	127	(14)
Richard Baines
[Letter]	127	(2)
Thomas Beard
From The Theatre of God's Judgements	129	(1)
William Vaughan
From The Golden-Grove, Moralized in Three Books	130	(1)
Anthony à Wood
From Athenae Oxonienses	130	(1)
David Riggs
From Marlowe's Quarrel with God	131	(10)
COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION	141	(39)
Document 1: Stationers' Register, January 7, 1601	141	(1)
Document 2: Stationers' Register, September 13, 1610	141	(1)
Document 3: Henslowe's Diary, November 22, 1602	142	(1)
Michael J. Warren
From Doctor Faustus: The Old Man and the Text	142	(11)
Leah Marcus
From Textual Instability and Ideological Difference: The Case of Doctor Faustus	153	(18)
Eric Rasmussen
The Nature of the B-Text	171	(9)
EARLY PERFORMANCE	180	(2)
Philip Henslowe	180	(1)
Thomas Middleton	180	(1)
Anonymous	181	(1)
John Melton	181	(1)
William Prynne	181	(1)
THE FAUST LEGEND	182	(44)
Anonymous
From The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus	182	(27)
Sara Munson Deats
Doctor Faustus: From Chapbook to Tragedy	209	(17)
RENAISSANCE MAGIC	226	(11)
Henry Cornelius Agrippa
From Three Books of Occult Philosophy	226	(6)
Keith Thomas
Conjuring and the Magical Tradition	232	(5)
RELIGION	237	(32)
John Calvin
From The Institution of the Christian Religion	237	(3)
The Thirty-Nine Articles	240	(10)
Williams Perkins
From A Golden Chain, or The Description of Theology	250	(7)
John D. Cox
From The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642	257	(12)
Criticism
EARLY CRITICS	269	(12)
Thomas Warton
From The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century	269	(1)
Sir Walter Scott
[On Doctor Faustus]	270	(1)
Charles Lamb
From Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare	270	(1)
William Hazlitt
From Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth	271	(1)
George Henry Lewes
From The Life and Works of Goethe	272	(1)
Anonymous
Faust on the Stage	273	(3)
A.C. Bradley
From English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers	276	(2)
A.C. Swinburne
"Prologue" to Doctor Faustus	278	(1)
George Santayana
From Three Philosophical Poets	279	(2)
MODERN CRITICS	281	(142)
Structure and Genre	281	(63)
Cleanth Brooks
The Unity of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus	281	(10)
G.K. Hunter
Five-Act Structure in Doctor Faustus	291	(13)
Douglas Cole
Doctor Faustus and the Morality Tradition	304	(8)
Susan Snyder
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as an Inverted Saint's Life	312	(11)
Jonathan Dollimore
Dr. Faustus (c. 1589-92): Subversion through Transgression	323	(9)
Michael Neill
From Anxieties of Ending	332	(4)
Roma Gill
"Such Conceits as Clownage Keeps in Pay": Comedy and Dr. Faustus	336	(8)
Ideas and Ideologies	344	(53)
Charles G. Masinton
[Faustus and the Failure of Renaissance Man]	344	(9)
Alan Sinfield
Reading Faustus's God	353	(8)
Marjorie Garber
[Writing and Unwriting in Doctor Faustus]	361	(11)
Katharine Eisaman Maus
[Marlowe and the Heretical Conscience]	372	(6)
Alison Findlay
Heavenly Matters of Theology: A Feminist Perspective	378	(12)
Stephen Orgel
[Magic and Power in Doctor Faustus]	390	(7)
Performance	397	(26)
David Bevington
Staging the A- and B-Texts of Doctor Faustus	397	(16)
George Bernard Shaw
Review of Doctor Faustus, July 2, 1896, Acted by Members of the Shakespeare Reading Society	413	(4)
William Tydeman
[Doctor Faustus on the Stage]	417	(6)
Christopher Marlowe: A Chronology	423	(4)
Selected Bibliography	427