Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

by Marlowe, Christopher; Bevington, David; Rasmussen, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780192834454
• ISBN10: 0192834452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi	(1)
Introduction	vii	(18)
Note on the Texts	xxv	(6)
Select Bibliography	xxxi	(4)
A Chronology of Christopher Marlowe	xxxv
TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, PART I	1	(68)
TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, PART II	69	(68)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS, A-TEXT	137	(48)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS, B-TEXT	185	(62)
THE JEW OF MALTA	247	(76)
EDWARD II	323	(80)
Explanatory Notes	403	(90)
Glossary	493