Doctor Faustus - Original 1604 Version & Revised 1616 Version (Annotated)

Doctor Faustus, presented here in the original 1604 text and the revised 1616 version, dramatizes the terrible bargain of a scholar who exchanges his soul for knowledge, power, and sensual experience. Written in Marlowe's thunderous blank verse and interwoven with comic prose scenes, the play stands at the crossroads of medieval morality drama and Renaissance tragedy, transforming the didactic con...