{"product_id":"doctor-faustus-with-the-english-faust-book","title":"Doctor Faustus: With the English Faust Book","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDoctor Faustus: With the English Faust Book\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChristopher Marlowe\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780872207295\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHackett Publishing Company, Inc.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e3.2.2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e features annotated versions, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1604 A-text and the 1592 text of Marlowe's source, the \u003ci\u003eEnglish Faust Book\u003c\/i\u003e--a translation of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eHistoria von Johann Fausten\u003c\/i\u003e published in Frankfurt in 1587, which recounts the strange story of Doctor John Faustus and his pact with the spirit Mephistopheles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Wootton's Introduction charts Marlowe's brief, meteoric career; the delicate social and political climate in which \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e was staged and the vexed question of the religious sensibilities to which it may have catered; the interpretive significance of variations between the A and B texts; and the shrewd and subversive uses to which Marlowe put the \u003ci\u003eEnglish Faust Book\u003c\/i\u003e in crafting, according to Wootton, a drama in which orthodox Christian teaching triumphed, but in which Faustus has all the best lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Doctor Faustus: With the English Faust Book | Christopher Marlowe | Paperback | 9780872207295 | Used: Like New | Drama 1630632","offer_id":50701828194562,"sku":"1630632","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71DGUcn4mKL.jpg?v=1791616191","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/doctor-faustus-with-the-english-faust-book","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}