The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: From the Quarto of 1604
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- First published
- 1604 (first surviving quarto)
- Pages
- 75Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 1.5 hours3 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
Faustus hopes magic will take him beyond the limits of ordinary learning and enters an agreement that gives him a set term of power. His uses of that power gradually make the initial ambition harder to recognise.
The play shifts from argument and temptation to practical jokes and public display. Those scenes sharpen the question of what Faustus thought he was buying in the first place.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- Elizabethan drama
- stories about bargains
- tragedy with comic interruptions
Things You May Not Know About Doctor Faustus
- The source text is the 1604 quarto.
- Another early printed version appeared in 1616.
About this edition
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