Christopher Marlowe

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe

Volume II: Dr. Faustus
Herausgeber: Gill, Roma

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the modern fascination with Marlowe, and in particular with Dr Faustus, there has been no edition of his works which offers original spelling, full textual apparatus, and a detailed commentary. The Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, edited in three volumes, supplies the need for a fully annotated scholarly treatment of the works. The present volume is devoted to Dr Faustus, which is now edited from the edition of 1604. A new theory of this text and its transmission is presented in an introductory essay, 'Dr Faustus, the Textual Problem'; the play is critically discussed in another essay, 'Dr Faustus, the Real Problem'. Differing theories of the text are outlined in an appendix, and another appendix selects the substantial passages which make the 1616 edition of the play unlike the 1604 version. Extracts from The English Faustbook, the main source of Marlowe's play, are also appended, and there is a full commentary.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780198127697
• ISBN-10: 0198127693
• Artikelnr.: 21366449

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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