[PDF.77gw] Faustus and the Censor: The English Faust-Book and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Faustus and the Censor: The English Faust-Book and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

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 | #2553413 in Books |  1987-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting, but at times, a rambling read. Perseverance required.|By E.A. Bucchianeri|Christopher Marlowe was one of England's most famous playwrights, a contemporary of Shakespeare and his rival for a brief period until his life was cut short by a mysterious dagger-thrust to the eye. The result of a tavern brawl? Political assassination? No one knows. The mystery survive|From Library Journal|Most readers of Marlowe's play see the overreacher as having sold his heavenly birthright for a mess of pottage. Empson's thesis is that the play's deterioration after Act I is the result of cuts and changes made by censors to bring the play

Marlowe's "Dr Faustus" is the play that has, more than any other, given us the legend of Faustus, the man for whom the price of knowledge was eternal damnation. But in this, his last major and sustained piece of work, the author challenges the integrity of the text as we have it, and with it, the shape of the Faust myth it inspired. The book presents the play as a crowning instance of the growing 16th-century preoccupation with magic, no longer the rank broth-boiling of ...

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