Christopher Marlowe- Doctor Faustus

"This critical edition of the play provides a fully annotated B Test version (1616) of Dr. Faustus with additional primary sources and background material. It caters to the requirement of the students and scholars who are studying the play in relation to its broader philosophical, theoretical, literary and political contexts. It offers essays and readings in a compact, easy-to-follow form. Some of its silent features are: A detailed Introduction that enables a close reading of the play in the context of newer, more recent critical approaches. An appendix providing select details of A text (1604) in a manner that facilitates a comparative study of A and B text. Primary Source material that includes selections from The English Faust Book, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments and Nathaniel Wood's Conflict of Conscience. Additional Background material incorporates articles on magic by Pico Dela Mirandola, Cornelius Agrippa and John Dee. A section on the Reformation provides Lollard documents and pamphlets written by Luther and Calvin. Another section includes polemical, contemporary documents, such as Baine's indictment against Marlowe and extracts from essays written by Charles Lamb and William Hazzlitt. It carries the reprints of four seminal essays by Wolfgang Clemen, Robert H. Watson, Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. This comprehensive anthology encourages the reader to study the play in close interrelation with Elizabethan theatrical practice. The attempt is to make the reader aware of the difference between a text in print and a text in performance. SUROOPA MUKHERJEE teaches English Literature at Hindu College, University of Delhi."