Doctor Faustus

This Norton Critical Edition includes:. Newly edited texts of the 1604 (A-Text) and the 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play. Editorial matter by David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter. Sources and background materials related to Christopher Marlowe, the composition and publication of Doctor Faustus. , early performance of the play, the Faust legend, and Renaissance magic, including a new selection from James I and IV's Of Daemonologie. Eighteen critical essays: five classic assessments and-new to the Second Edition-thirteen recent interpretations. A chronology and an updated selected bibliography.