Doctor Faustus: A Two-text Edition (A-text, 1604; B-text, 1616) Contexts and Sources Criticism
- ISBN-10
- 0393977544
- ISBN-13
- 9780393977547
- Series
- Doctor Faustus
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 430
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company Incorporated
- Author
- Christopher Marlowe
Description
Renaissance England's great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when first performed at the end of the sixteenth century.
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