Doctor Faustus

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"Michael Keefer's knowledge of this play and of its philosophical roots is unrivalled; he has produced exactly what
we need."
A.D. Nuttall, New College, Oxford University
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is one of the classics of English literature; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two quitevdrfferent early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for textual scholars and critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which version is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative?
Although recent studies have shown that much of the 1616 text consists of revisions carried out a decade after Marlowe's death, and that the 1604 version is closer to the plays's original form, most other editions are still based upon the 1616 text. Michael Keefer's new 1604-ver-sion edition, which takes account of recent developments in textual... Tovább

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"Michael Keefer's knowledge of this play and of its philosophical roots is unrivalled; he has produced exactly what
we need."
A.D. Nuttall, New College, Oxford University
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is one of the classics of English literature; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two quitevdrfferent early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for textual scholars and critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which version is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative?
Although recent studies have shown that much of the 1616 text consists of revisions carried out a decade after Marlowe's death, and that the 1604 version is closer to the plays's original form, most other editions are still based upon the 1616 text. Michael Keefer's new 1604-ver-sion edition, which takes account of recent developments in textual criticism and literary theory, offers a better and aesthetically more satisfying text than those currently in use. Keefer's introduction reconstructs the Renaissance ideological concepts that shaped and deformed Doctor Faustus, and the text is accompanied by collations, textual and explanatory notes, and excerpts from sources.
Co-winner of the 1987 Nelson Prize of the Renaissance Society of America and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex in 1988-89, Michael Keefer is an Associate Professor at the University v of Guelph. His articles have appeared ii^such journals as Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Quarterly. Vissza