Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus is one of the most infamous plays in the English language. This new modernised edition with commentary, supporting essay questions and website will guide you through this most infamous of plays. This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while its lively introduction will helpfully guide you through the fume of fact and legend that has accompanied the play across the centuries, from its premiere in the late sixteenth century to its most recent incarnation on stage and film. Supplemented by a plot summary, annotated bibliography and a companion website providing thought-provoking podcasts, production images, useful web links and sample questions and essay ideas, this edition is the most enlightening and engaging you will find.
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was an influential Elizabethan playwright known for his groundbreaking work "Doctor Faustus." His dramatic style combined blank verse with bold themes of ambition, power, and the human condition. Marlowe's contributions to English literature laid the foundation for the development of the Renaissance drama.
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Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays : Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II
