by Christopher Marlowe · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780415039604
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«Doctor Faustus» is the Elizabethan play by Christopher Marlowe, published by Routledge in paperback (184 pages, in English).
The play follows the scholar Doctor Faustus, who, dissatisfied with human knowledge, invokes magic and signs a pact with the devil in exchange for power. The edition, prepared by John D. Jump, includes a historical introduction, a chronology of the author's life, and ample notes to the text for studying the work in depth.
This edition belongs to the Routledge English Texts collection. The original text was published around 1588, according to the Goodreads record.
It is suitable for students of English literature and for readers approaching this Elizabethan play for the first time.
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.
