![]() ![]() These diverse critical essays include classic analyses by Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and A. Twenty-five carefully chosen interpretations-written from the eighteenth century to the present-allow students to enrich their critical understanding of the play. This volume also reprints early documents relating to the writing and publication of the play and to its first performances, along with contemporary comments on Marlowe's scandalous reputation. John Faustus, along with contemporary writings on magic and religion (including texts by Agrippa, Calvin, and Perkins) that establish the play's intellectual background. Sources and Contexts includes a generous selection from Marlowe's main source, The Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, each with detailed explanatory annotations. ![]()
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