Doctor Faustus A critical guide
by Deats, Sara MunsonFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-19
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe's most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy.
Author Biography
Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center of Applied Humanities at The University of South Florida, USA. She has published widely on Marlowe and Shakespeare, has served as President of the Marlowe Society of America, and in 1998 received the international Roma Gill Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Marlowe Scholarship.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Series Introduction | p. viii |
| Timeline | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Critical Backstory | p. 17 |
| The Performance History | p. 41 |
| The State of the Art: Current Critical Research | p. 72 |
| New Directions: Doctor Faustus and Renaissance Hermeticism | p. 96 |
| New Directions: Imperialism as Devilry: A Postcolonial Reading of Doctor Faustus | p. 111 |
| New Directions: 'What means this show?' Staging Faustus on Campus | p. 124 |
| New Directions: The Other Black Arts: Doctor Faustus and the Inky Worlds of Printing and Writing | p. 140 |
| A Survey of Resources | p. 159 |
| Bibliography | p. 179 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 188 |
| Index | p. 193 |
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