Doctor Faustus
A Norton Critical Edition
Second Edition
4 August 2023
Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Newly edited texts of the 1604 (A-Text) and the 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play.
- Editorial matter by David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter.
- Sources and background materials related to Christopher Marlowe, the composition and publication of Doctor Faustus, early performance of the play, the Faust legend, and Renaissance magic, including a new selection from James I and IV’s Of Daemonologie.
- Eighteen critical essays: five classic assessments and—new to the Second Edition—thirteen recent interpretations.
- A chronology and an updated selected bibliography.