This in the first complete schalarly edition of Docter Faustus to have been pre pared from the early quartos since the tate Sir Walter Greg demonstrated that The 1616 version of the play was closer to what Marlowe and another wrote than the 1604 version upon which editors had for a long time been accustomed to tuly. It pensidus a modern spelling text which is broadly similar to Greg's though frequently differing from it in detail; and, in its introduction, textusl and explanatory notes, and appendices, it presents materials chosen to serve not only the student but also the man of the theatre and the non-specialist reader. The introduction inclades a compact biography of Mariowe, a study of the trotual problems posed by Doctor Faustus, discussions of the dite, sour ces and authorship of the play, a full critical interpretation of it, and an outline of its stage history from the sixteenth century to the Edinburgh Festival of 1961. The appendices sontain aternative versions of five of its scenes, as well a coprous extracts from the Einglish translation, used by the dramatists of the olit German Foust Book
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