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David Punter  \nEMILY BRONTË: Wuthering Heights ed. Heather Glen  \nROBERT BROWNING: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Aidan Day  \nBYRON: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Norman Page  \nGEOFFREY CHAUCER: The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath ed. Marion Wynne-Davies  \nJOHN CLARE: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Merryn and Raymond Williams JOSEPH CONRAD: Selected Literary Criticism and The Shadow-Line ed. Allan Ingram  \nJOHN DONNE: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. T.W. and R.J.Craik  \nGEORGE ELIOT: The Mill on the Floss ed. Sally Shuttleworth  \nHENRY FIELDING: Joseph Andrews ed. Stephen Copley  \nBENJONSON: The Alchemist ed. Peter Bement  \nD.H.LAWRENCE: Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose ed. John Lucas ANDREW MARVELL: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Robert Wilcher JOHN MILTON: Selected Longer Poems and Prose ed. Tony Davies  \nJOHN MILTON: Selected Shorter Poems and Prose ed. Tony Davies  \nWILFRED OWEN: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Jennifer Breen  \nALEXANDER POPE: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Robin Sowerby  \nSHELLEY: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Alasdair Macrae  \nSPENSER: Selected Writings ed. Elizabeth Porges Watson  \nALFRED, LORD TENNYSON: Selected Poetry ed. Donald Low  \nOSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest ed. Joseph Bristow  \nVIRGINIA WOOLF: To The Lighthouse ed. Sandra Kemp  \nWILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Philip Hobsbaum  \nDoctor Faustus  \nby Christopher Marlowe Edited by  \nJOHN D.JUMP  \nLondon and New York  \nThis edition first published 1965  \nby Methuen & Co. Ltd  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \nSimultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Introduction and notes © 1965 John D.Jump All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nISBN 0-203-97796-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-03960-6 (Print Edition)  \nContents  \nPREFACE vi  \nCHRONOLOGY OF MARLOWE’S LIFE AND WORKS viii  \nINTRODUCTION 1  \nOrigins ofthe Faustus legend 1  \nThe first English biography of Faustus 2  \nExtracts from the Damnable Life 4  \nDate of the play 21  \nAuthorship of the play 22  \nThe Renaissance 24  \nThe morality plays 25  \nThe Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus 27  \nMarlowe’s theatre 37  \nStage-history of Doctor Faustus 43  \nText of Doctor Faustus 44  \nTHE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR 46  \nFAUSTUS  \nNOTES 114  \nSHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY 136  \nPreface  \nThe text of Doctor Faustus printed here reproduces exactly that printed in my‘Revels’ edition of the play, published by Methuen in 1962. But, in view of the special needs of the readers for whom the present volume is intended, the editorial apparatus of introduction, notes, etc. is very largely new.  \nAll textual notes have been omitted; so, too, have the alternative versions of five scenes which differ too widely from the accepted versions for their variants to be digestible into textual notes and which were therefore printed in full in an appendix to the ‘Revels’ edition. The long textual sections of the earlier introduction have been replaced by a very brief account of the characteristic features of my text of the play.  \nFor section 8 of the present introduction, I have borrowed at length from my critical discussion and interpretation of Doctor Faustus in section 9 of its predecessor and have expanded what I have borrowed. Otherwise, the present","cbCainxYIjKNrl4m","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainxYIjKNrl4m","pdf",1083778,147,"English","# Preface\n# Chronology of Marlowe’s Life and Works\n# Introduction\n## Origins of the Faustus legend\n## The first English biography of Faustus\n## Extracts from the Damnable Life\n## Date of the play\n## Authorship of the play\n## The Renaissance\n## The morality plays\n## The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus\n## Marlowe’s theatre\n## Stage-history of Doctor Faustus\n## Text of Doctor Faustus\n# The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus\n# Notes\n# Short Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"What does the Preface say about this edition’s textual approach?\",\"answer\":\"The text reproduces the earlier Revels edition text, but the editorial apparatus for introduction and notes is largely new. 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