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Doctor Faustus
Christoper Marlowe
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Description for Doctor Faustus
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 429.
Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative?
Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their ... Read more
Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative?
Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781551112107
SKU
V9781551112107
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Ref
99-3
About Christoper Marlowe
Michael Keefer is a Professor of English at the University of Guelph, former President of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, and winner of the Renaissance Society of America’s Nelson Prize. He has published widely on English Renaissance literature, early modern philosophy, literary and textual-critical theory, and contemporary cultural politics.
Reviews for Doctor Faustus
“This edition is absolutely essential for any serious student or teacher of this perpetually intriguing and vexing play.” — Peter G. Platt in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 48.2 (Spring 2008) “Michael Keefer’s revised edition of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is now all the more an indispensable text for students, teachers, and scholars of early modern English drama. It combines ... Read more