by Christopher Marlowe · Athenaeum Uitgeverij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393977547
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«Doctor Faustus» is Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy, published by W. W. Norton in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Doctor Faustus, a scholar dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge, turns to magic and makes a pact with the devil to gain knowledge and power. Marlowe's tragedy shows the price of intellectual ambition, caught between moral condemnation and fascination with learning, with a theatrical force that still disturbs.
Critical edition edited by David Scott Kastan for Norton Critical Editions: includes the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions with annotations, sources, and contexts, twenty-five critical essays, chronology, and bibliography.
Study edition for university students of English literature and readers interested in Elizabethan theater and the Faust myth.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.
