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Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
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Focus Item #: 00897
Author(s): James Lake
ISBN: 978-1-58510-089-7
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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 :
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Notes
on the page highlighted for emphasis
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Interviews
on performance issues
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Illustrations
of theater, movie stills
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Emphasis
on the work in performance
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Full
up-to-date bibliography
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Discussion
questions
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Interview
with Ralph Alan Cohen on Performance of Doctor Faustus
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Interview
with Andreas Teuber on being Mephistopheles in
Burton's Faustus
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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.
Additional
Information
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