by Christopher Marlowe · A & C Black · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713632316
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«Dr Faustus» is Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy, published by A & C Black in the New Mermaids series in paperback (110 pages, in English).
The play centers on Doctor Faustus, a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power, and explores the consequences of that pact. Marlowe draws on German legends about Faustus to write an Elizabethan tragedy about ambition, sin and redemption.
Second edition in the New Mermaids series, edited by Roma Gill and based on the A text of the play, with an introduction covering biographical, dramatic and theatrical aspects.
Intended for students of literature and theater, as well as readers interested in Elizabethan drama and literary criticism.
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.
