The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume II: Dr. Faustus

ISBN-13: 9780198127697 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 184 str.

Christopher Marlowe; Roma Gill;Gill

Opis

This new edition of Dr. Faustus presents the play in its original spelling with extensive commentary and textual apparatus. Based on the edition of 1604, the book includes an introduction that presents a new theory of the text and its transmission, and appendices that outline different theories of the text and provide both the alternative passages from the 1616 edition and extracts from The English Faustbook, which was the play's principal source.

Recenzje

clearly intended for the scholarly market...a critically edited old-spelling edition based on the A text...If Gill's hypothesis is correct, and it makes sense, then she has here offered a solid objection to Kirschbaum's arguments about the b text's priority in the line of transmission.

Spis treści

Preface; Date and source; References and abbreviations; Introduction; The textual problem; The real problem; Dr Faustus; Accidental emendations; Commentary; Appendices: A. he English Faustbook; B. The 'adicyones' in the B text, with emendations; C. A or B? The scholar's responsibility; Select bibliography

O autorze

Editor of ten texts in the Oxford School Shakespeare and The Plays of Christopher Marlowe (OUP 1971). Formerly a General Editor of the New Mermaid Texts, and Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield