Doctor Faustus and Other Plays — Christopher Marlowe

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

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