Hackett
Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book
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Description
This edition presents the 1604 "A-text," along with the 1592 text of The English Faust Book, both in modernized spelling and punctuation, and accompanied by notes. The editors Introduction discusses Marlowes life; the social climate in which his play was staged and the religious sensibilities to which it ostensibly appealed; 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 dramatizing a story in which "orthodox Christian teaching triumphed, but in which Faustus has all the best lines."