Name: Doctor Faustus (Signet Classics)
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Author: Christopher Marlowe
ISBN: 9780451531612

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Physical Book

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Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

241

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.0 x 10.4 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

9780451531612

ISBN13

9780451531612

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Synopsis "Doctor Faustus (Signet Classics) "

In this brilliant dramatization of the Faust story, a scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for limitless knowledge and powerful black magic, yet he remains unfulfilled, serving as a warning to those who would sacrifice everything sacred for mere earthly gain. But Marlowe's play is also a symbolic analysis of the shift from the late-medieval world, which valued most the theologian's contemplation, to the early-modern world, which favored the rational analyses of statesmen and scientists. Caught between these ideals, Faustus is both a tragic fool destroyed by his own ambition and a hero at the forefront of a changing society. In Doctor Faustus, Marlowe thought-fully examines faith and enlightenment, nature and science-and the terrible costs of the objects of our desire. This new edition of Marlowe's classic includes an introduction, a history of the play onstage, and an updated bibliography by the editor, Sylvan Barnet of the Tufts University. Also included are generous selections from the historical source of Doctor Faustus and illuminating commentaries by Richard B.Sewall, G.K. Hunter, David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, and John Russell Brown, as well as a new critical essay by Kevin Dunn.

Christopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, and translator. His life remains a great mystery surrounded by all sorts of legends. He was born in Canterbury the same year as William Shakespeare into a prosperous middle-class family. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1584 and completed his Master's in 1587. Initially, Cambridge authorities were reluctant to grant him the degree because they suspected he had converted to Catholicism, but the Queen's Privy Council intervened on his behalf, emphasizing that Marlowe "had rendered good service to Her Majesty" and had been working for the "benefit of the country." However, the exact nature of the service he provided to the crown is unknown. After his years in Cambridge, Marlowe moved to London where he led a dark and turbulent life (he had a couple of run-ins with the law and had a bad reputation) while trying to make his way as a playwright.

He is the author of seven plays and an incomplete poem: the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Doctor Faustus, Dido, Queen of Carthage, and The Massacre at Paris, as well as the poem Hero and Leander. In 1593, at just twenty-nine years old, he was arrested and accused of being an atheist. He did not go to prison, and before his case was judged, he died during a brawl in a tavern in Deptford.

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