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Author : William Empson
Release : 1987-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Faustus and the Censor by : William Empson
Download or read book Faustus and the Censor written by William Empson. This book was released on 1987-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, argues that the original text was subjected to religious censorship, and speculates on the original theme of the play
Author : William Empson
Release : 1987
Genre : Censorship
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Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Faustus and the Censor: the English Faust-book and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; Recovered and Edited with an Introduction and Postscript by John Henry Jones by : William Empson
Download or read book Faustus and the Censor: the English Faust-book and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; Recovered and Edited with an Introduction and Postscript by John Henry Jones written by William Empson. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Release : 2007-02-12
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 184/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Doctor Faustus - Second Edition by : Christopher Marlowe
Download or read book Doctor Faustus - Second Edition written by Christopher Marlowe. This book was released on 2007-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. Most competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer’s fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto’s Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This edition has been updated and revised. Keefer’s critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources.
Author : Christa Knellwolf King
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Faustus and the Promises of the New Science, c. 1580-1730 by : Christa Knellwolf King
Download or read book Faustus and the Promises of the New Science, c. 1580-1730 written by Christa Knellwolf King. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the German Faust Book (1587) and its English translation (1592), this book argues that these works transformed a simple rogue's tale into an incisive study of morality and beliefs. The chapbooks' contrastive portrayal of an imaginary experience of hell and a pseudo-scientific journey through the cosmos is interpreted as an unconventional approach to the questions of an inquiring mind. This study offers the first analysis of the chapbooks as literary works in their own right, as opposed to simply being sources for Christopher Marlowe's play. It is also the first study to describe the Faustus typology as a vehicle by which uncompromising thinkers of early modernity and the Enlightenment questioned contemporary views about religion, morality and the possibility of experiencing transcendence. While arguing that Marlowe's Doctor Faustus primarily examines the imaginary foundations of religious rules and standards, the author suggests that the 1616 version of the play revived the chapbooks' accounts of spiritual ravishment and intellectual ecstasy. Imaginary explorations of cosmic space became popular in the seventeenth century and gave rise to strongly diverging works of literature, embracing the arcane spirituality of Milton's Paradise Lost as well as Fontenelle's sociable but essentially secular fantasy of cosmic travel. This book shows that contemporary responses to early modern science also tended to address the most urgent concerns of the Faustus legend, explaining the re-emergence of the typology in Mountfort's late seventeenth-century farcical Faustus play and early eighteenth-century harlequinades about Doctor Faustus
Author : E. A. Bucchianeri
Release : 2008
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Book Rating : 608/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Faust by : E. A. Bucchianeri
Download or read book Faust written by E. A. Bucchianeri. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who lived to tell his tale. Volume I includes: New insights into the life and times of the historical Dr. Faustus, the notorious occultist and charlatan who reputedly declared the devil was his brother-in-law. A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales. Original discussions on Christopher Marlowes famous drama and his atheistic rendition of the Faustian myth, including a unique and controversial analysis of the A and B texts. The days of the Faust puppet plays. Gotthold Ephraim Lessings unfinished Faust drama. Volume II features: A unique, in-depth account of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes masterpiece, Faust, Parts One and Two. An examination of the early sketches of his classic drama. Includes detailed explanations of Goethes hidden symbolism in the text, his interest in history and science, the occult, alchemy, Freemasonry and his warnings to future generations.
