Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Marlowe, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192834452 ISBN 13: 9780192834454

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.
Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

About this title

About the Author:

David Bevington is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Eric Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192834452
• ISBN 13: 9780192834454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Bevington David, Rasmussen Eric