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This is a book about the play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. It has an editor's introduction discussing Marlowe's life and the play's social and religious context. It also has notes about the different versions of the play and Marlowe's clever use of the English Faust Book.
This edition presents the 1604 "A-text," along with the 1592 text of The English Faust Book, both in modernized spelling and punctuation, and accompanied by notes. The editor's Introduction discusses Marlowe's life; the social climate in which his play was staged and the religious sensibilities to which it ostensibly appealed; the interpretive significance of variations between the "A" and "B" texts; and the shrewd and subversive uses to which Marlowe put The English Faust Book in dramatizing a story in which "orthodox Christian teaching triumphed, but in which Faustus has all the best lines."
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