Doctor Faustus (Focus on Performance) - Softcover

Marlowe, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585100897 ISBN 13: 9781585100897

Publisher: Focus, 2005

Synopsis

James H. Lake and Irving Ribner's edition of Doctor Faustus is an annotated version, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1616 B-text. James H. Lake's Introduction discusses the play’s historical and dramatic contexts, but focuses on its performance history from the Elizabethan era to our own, including film productions. Textual notes discuss variations between the A and B texts. Interviews with Ralph Alan Cohen of Shenandoah Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber (Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) as well as illustrations from theatre and film performances included.

About this title

About the Author

James H. Lake (Ph.D. University of Delaware) is Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and has been appointed to the faculty of the Greco Institute. He has served as Director of the LSUS Joys of Learning Humanities Seminars for the Elderly, Director of the University’s Honors Program and Director of the LSUS Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program. He has served on numerous boards, including the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Board of Directors of the Noel Foundation, and the editorial board of Shakespeare and the Classroom. He has published widely on Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Film, has edited the Focus-on- Performance edition of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and is the Series Editor for the New Kittredge Shakespeare.

From the Back Cover

Christopher Marlowe's play "Dr. Faustus" that includes features of the text :

Notes on the page highlighted for emphasis

Interviews on performance issues

Illustrations of theater, movie stills

Emphasis on the work in performance

Full up-to-date bibliography

Discussion questions

Interview with Ralph Alan Cohen on Performance of Doctor Faustus

Interview with Andreas Teuber on being Mephistopheles in Burton's Faustus

Special section on performance

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Christopher Marlowe's play "Dr. Faustus" that includes features of the text :

Notes on the page highlighted for emphasis

Interviews on performance issues

Illustrations of theater, movie stills

Emphasis on the work in performance

Full up-to-date bibliography

Discussion questions

Interview with Ralph Alan Cohen on Performance of Doctor Faustus

Interview with Andreas Teuber on being Mephistopheles in Burton's Faustus

Special section on performance

Edition details

• Publisher: Focus
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585100897
• ISBN 13: 9781585100897
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 114
• Editor: Lake James H.