Doctor Faustus

ISBN-13: 9781474295178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str.

Christopher Marlowe; Paul Menzer

Opis

Doctor John Faustus of Wittenburg trades his soul to Lucifer for years of learning without limits and power without parallel. In this completely new edition of the play, Paul Menzer demonstrates how you can engage with this challenging, colourful tragedy for yourself.

Spis treści

IntroductionPrefacePlot summaryAnalysis1. Historical and literary contexts2. Performance aspects of the text3. Critical interpretationsResources and annotated bibliographyA note on the textThe Play

O autorze

Christopher Marlowe was a playwright, poet, scholar, translator and alleged spy. His other works include: Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part 1, Tamburlaine Part 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and The Massacre at Paris. He was murdered at the age of 29, in a private dining house in Deptford in 1593. Paul Menzer is Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Mary Baldwin University, where he is a professor and the director of the Shakespeare and Performance graduate program. He is the editor of Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage (2006) and author of The Hamlets: Cues, Q's, and Remembered Texts (2008), Anecdotal Shakespeare: a New Performance History (2015), Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center (2017), as well as editions of Romeo and Juliet (2017) and Doctor Faustus (2018).