Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

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Description

An authoritative text of Marlowe's classic play, with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance history, including cinematic history. Interviews with Ralph Alan Cohen of Shenandoah Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber (Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) discuss issues of performance. Illustrations, a useful timeline, a list of topics designed to promote discussion, and a up-to-date bibliography. This text is based on the authoritative edition by Irving Ribner, updated, with much additional material on performance, by James H. Lake.

Features

Christopher Marlowe's play "Dr. Faustus" that includes features of the text :

-          Notes on the page highlighted for emphasis

-          Interviews on performance issues

-          Illustrations of theater, movie stills

-          Emphasis on the work in performance

-          Full up-to-date bibliography

-          Discussion questions

-          Interview with Ralph Alan Cohen on Performance of Doctor Faustus

-          Interview with Andreas Teuber on being Mephistopheles in Burton's Faustus

-          Special section on performance

Market

Literature or drama course dealing with Renissance literature or drama.

About the Author

James H. Lake is series editor for the New Kittredge Shakespeare series. He has published on Shakespeare and related topics in a variety of journals, including Shakespeare Quarterly, American Imago, Shakespeare and the Classroom, Upstart Crow, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Newsletter, Literature/Film Quarterly, Explicator, and elsewhere. He is presently preparing a book on using Shakespeare and cinema in the classroom.

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