Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to the First Broadview Literary Texts Edition, 1991
Introduction
- The rationale for a new edition of Doctor Faustus
- Narratives of textual transmission
- Dissidence and orthodoxy in the textual history of Doctor Faustus
- Leah Marcus’s “Marlowe effect”: a new orthodoxy?
- Master-narratives of textual criticism
- Textual-critical fashions and paradigms
- Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593
- The historical Dr. Faustus, c. 1466-c. 1537
- The legend of Faustus
- Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: source and contexts
- The primary source
- Informing contexts
- Dates and authorship of the A and B versions
- Ideological motives in the B-text revisions
- The A and B texts of Doctor Faustus
- A problem solved—and re-solved
- The revised ending of III. ii
- A permissive stage direction in V. i
- Compositorial evidence
- Local B-text priority: some preliminary questions
- II. iii: Orb, spheres and heavens
- III. Chorus: Celestial itineraries
- Further points of B-text priority in III. i and II. i
- Conclusion
- The present A-version edition
- “Copy-text”
- Act and scene divisions
- Restoration of misplaced scenes
- Abbreviations: Editions of Doctor Faustus
- Early editions
- Editions containing both versions
- A-version editions
- B-version editions
- Conflations of the A and B versions
- Abbreviations: Works Cited
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- Dramatis personae
Prologue
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Epilogue
Textual Collations: 1604 Edition
Appendix A: The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)
- Dramatis personae
Prologue
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Epilogue
Textual Collations: 1616 Edition
Appendix B: Excerpts from The Historie of the damnable life, and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus (1592)
Appendix C: Excerpts from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum (1530) and De occulta philosophia libri tres
(1533)
Appendix D: Excerpts from Jean Calvin, The Institution of Christian Religion, trans. Thomas Norton (1561)