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.
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.
Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book
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ISBN-13: | 9780872207295 |
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Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 03/15/2005 |
Series: | Hackett Classics |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d) |