Authors: Christopher Marlowe, Sylvan Barnet
ISBN-13: 9780451531612, ISBN-10: 0451531612
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: April 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was one of the foremost English dramatists of the Elizabethan era and a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
Ros King is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, and Director of the Centre of Medieval and Renaissance Culture. She is author of several books including The Winter's Tale, for Palgrave's Shakespeare Handbook Series and editor of Comedy of Errors for Cambridge's New Shakespeare Series.
Sells 3-5000 copies a year.
This combines annotated and modernized versions of Marlowe's 1604 text, plus the 1592 English translation of an earlier German text on which Marlowe based his play. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Introduction
About the Play
Summary of the Plot
The Play
Faustus and Salvation
The Vision of Helen
Early Performances
Recent Stage History
Date and Sources
The Author
Dr Faustus 1
Dramatis Personae 2
The Text 4
Appendix 83