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Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (Including The English Faust Book)
 
 
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Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (Including The English Faust Book) [Kindle Edition]

M. G. Scarsbrook (Author), Christopher Marlowe (Author)
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Declared by Swinburne as having 'no parallel in all the range of tragedy', Doctor Faustus is considered Christopher Marlowe's greatest work. This edition of his play gathers together both published versions of The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus, from the Quarto of 1604, and the Quarto of 1616, each with modernized spelling and full textual notes. Optimized for navigation as an eBook, with a table of contents linked to every section, this edition also features a wealth of contextual sources, such as The English Faust Book, Marlowe's main inspiration for the play, as well as a detailed timeline, a biographical profile, an extensive list of all Marlowe's personal associates, and a collection of all the key primary documents relating to Marlowe's dramatic life and death (e.g., The Privy Council Note To Cambridge Authorities, The Dutch Church Libel, The Baines Note, & much more).

INCLUDED INSIDE:
- The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (1604)
- The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (1616)
- The English Faust Book
- Timeline
- Biographical Profile (detailing Marlowe's birth, death, family, education, profession, criminal record, religious beliefs, legacy, etc.)
- List of Marlowe's Personal Associates
- Primary Sources on Marlowe's Life and Death
- A. C. Swinburne's famous critical essay, 'Christopher Marlowe'

BONUS FEATURE:
- An exclusive excerpt of M. G. Scarsbrook's novel THE MARLOWE CONSPIRACY, an historical thriller featuring Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare teaming-up to expose a high level government conspiracy.

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 811 KB
  • Print Length: 154 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Red Herring (19 Jan 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004K1F8Y8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #73,485 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Christopher Marlowe
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M. G. Scarsbrook

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Amazon.com: 4.2 out of 5 stars  4 reviews
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Two books on Dr Faustus for the price of one! 24 Oct 2008
By B.A.Roque - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
It is just so convenient to have both the 1604 A-text of Marlowe's Dr.Faustus bound with The English Faust Book. It is in that sense an ideal undergraduate text enabling students to make proper comparisons with a source and thereby to see how Marlowe has rendered the narrative into dramatic form. And anyway the Faust Book is great fun in itself.
The editorial material, introduction and notes are also thorough and valuable though in part they might be said to favour someone who has existing knowledge of other editions and writings on Marlowe.
And finally, for price, it is perfectly accessible.
So thank you to David Wootton and the Hackett Publishing Company for providing such usable materials.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Kindle rendition I have seen so far. 1 Oct 2011
By B. Marold - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This review is exclusively for the $.99 Kindle edition of Christopher Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus.

I bought this edition primarily to be able to compare it with Goethe's Faust versions, so all I really needed was the ability to search the text. What I found was much, much more, plus a superb port of the material to the Kindle.

The Table of Contents tells the whole story, as it is longer than any table of contents I have seen in any other Kindle editin, because there are at least four different works in this $1 package. There are two versions of the play, an "English Faust Book", and a "Life of Christopher Marlowe".

There are two drawbacks to this edition, but they are only a problem if you use it for scholarly work. The first is that the footnotes are not "active". You cannot click on the number and be taken to the note (I have several scholarly books on Kindle where you can do this). The second is that there is no correspondence to a printed paper copy page number. Rules for scholarly citations by page number have not caught up with electronic book readers yet.

Like so many public domain texts, for a dollar, this Kindle version is a real steal.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars good choice for college students 5 May 2008
By Brandy Whitten - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Excellent price, helpful footnotes, detailed introduction, and the inclusion of the English Faust Book make this a great choice for college students working on the Faust myth or Christopher Marlowe's works.

If you're reading it for the Faust tale, be sure to read Goethe's for comparison. Then pick up Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend.
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MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:[57] Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss? O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to my fainting soul! &quote;
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