Doctor Faustus: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

by David Scott Kastan (Editor), Matthew Hunter (Editor), Christopher Marlowe (Author)

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Newly edited texts of the 1604 (A-Text) and the 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play.
• Editorial matter by David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter.
• Sources and background materials related to Christopher Marlowe, the composition and publication of Doctor Faustus, early performance of the play, the Faust legend, and Renaissance magic, including a new selection from James I and IV's Of Daemonologie.
• Eighteen critical essays: five classic assessments and--new to the Second Edition--thirteen recent interpretations.
• A chronology and an updated selected bibliography.