by Christopher Marlowe, Charles Murray · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582022621
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«York Notes on Doctor Faustus» is the study guide to Christopher Marlowe's play, with notes by Charles Murray, in paperback (88 pages, in English).
This guide analyzes «Doctor Faustus» and helps readers understand the work through summaries, commentaries, and study suggestions, covering the biographical, dramatic, and theatrical aspects of Marlowe's text.
It belongs to the York Notes series, within the Longman Literature Guides; published by Pearson Education Limited in 1988.
Aimed at secondary school students and preparation for English literature exams, especially the British curriculum (Key Stage 4 and GCSE).
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.
