Doctor Faustus Contents
- The Faust figure in European culture
- Social / political context
- Religious / philosophical context
- The theatrical context
- The texts of Doctor Faustus
- Prologue: Chorus one
- Scene one
- Scene two
- Scene three
- Scene four
- Scene five
- Chorus two
- Scene six
- Scene six, version B
- Scene seven
- Scene seven, version B
- Scene eight
- Scene eight, version B
- Chorus three
- Scene nine
- Scene nine, version B
- Scene ten
- Scene eleven
- Chorus four
- Scene twelve
- Scene thirteen
- Epilogue
Booklist
Social, political and cultural context
Nigel Heard Tudor Economy and Society. Access to History. London: Hodder Arnold, 1992.
David Loades Elizabeth I. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2005.
Lacey Baldwin Smith Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia. London: Pimlico, 2006.
David Starkey Elizabeth. London: Vintage, 2001.
Keith Thomas Religion and the Decline of Magic. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
Penry Williams The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603. New Oxford History of England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Keith Wrightson English Society 1580-1680. London: Routledge, 1993.
General works on the Elizabethan theatre
A. R. Braunmuller and M. Hattaway (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Julia Briggs This Stage Play-World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
G. E. Bentley The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642. Princeton, 1971.
G. E. Bentley The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642. Princeton, 1984.
Alexander Leggatt English Drama: Shakespeare to the Restoration, 1590-1660. London: Longman, 1988.
Works by Christopher Marlowe
David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (eds.) Doctor Faustus and Other Plays. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Mark Burnett (ed.) Christopher Marlowe: the Complete Plays. Everyman Paperbacks. London: J. M. Dent, 1999.
Roma Gill and Ros King Doctor Faustus. New Mermaids. Methuen Drama. London: A & C. Black, 2008.
David Kastan (ed.) Doctor Faustus. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Stephen Orgel (ed.) Christopher Marlowe: the Complete Poems and Translations. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2007.
Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey (eds.) Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2003.
Biographies of Christopher Marlowe
Anthony Burgess A Dead Man in Deptford. London: Hutchinson, 1993.
- An enjoyable novel about Marlowe's life and death.
Park Honan Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. An excellent modern biography.
Lisa Hopkins Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
- Part of an excellent series studying author's literary careers.
Charles Nicholls The Reckoning. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.
- An exploration of the circumstances surrounding Marlowe's death.
Critical works on Marlowe and Doctor Faustus
Patrick Cheney (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Sarah Deats and Robert Logan (eds.) Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2008.
Darryl Grantley and Peter Roberts (eds,) Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996.
Thomas Healy Christopher Marlowe. Writers and their Work. London: Northcote House, 1994.
Lisa Hopkins and Sean McEvoy (eds.) Christopher Marlowe: Renaissance Dramatist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
John Jump (ed.) Marlowe: Doctor Faustus: a Casebook. London: Macmillan, 1969.
Michael Mangan Doctor Faustus. Penguin Critical Studies. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.
Roger Sales Christopher Marlowe. Macmillan Dramatists. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.
Simon Shepherd. Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan Theatre. London: Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Stevie Simkin A Preface to Marlowe. London: Longman, 2000.
Stevie Simkin Marlowe: the Plays. Analysing Texts. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
William Tydeman Doctor Faustus. Text and Performance. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984.
Richard Wilson (ed.) Christopher Marlowe. Longman Critical Readers. London: Longman, 1999.
All of the books listed in this section have chapters or substantial passages on Doctor Faustus, easily found from the contents page or the index.
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