Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

ISBN 0199537062   Part volume "Tamburlaine" Parts I and II, "Doctor Faustus" A and B Texts, The "Jew of ISBN13 9780199537068 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 395 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Oxford World's Classics Publication date 10 Jul 2008   Previous ISBN 9780192834454 Library of Congress PR2660   Height (mm) 197 DEWEY 832.4   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY edition DC22   Spine width (mm) 36 Pages 544   Academic level General

Tamburlaine, Part I; Tamburlaine, Part II; Doctor Faustus, A-Text; Doctor Faustus, B-Text; The Jew of Malta; Edward II

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