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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

The Elizabethan Play by Christopher Marlowe - Annotated with Supplemental Text

by Christopher Marlowe, John D. Harris ยท 2018

ISBN: 172377636X 9781723776366

Category: Fiction / Classics

Page count: 210

The original Elizabethan play by Christopher Marlowe, the Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, based on the German legend of the man who risked damnation for the sake of absolute knowledge. Edited and annotated by John D. Harris, its spelling and punctuation modernized, supplemental text includes background to legend, discussion of Marlowe's life and suspicious death, and excerpts of the English Faustbook of 1592 that inspired the play.