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Title: Dr. Faustus

Author: Christopher Marlowe

Posting Date: August 2, 2008 [EBook #811]
Release Date: February, 1997

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DR. FAUSTUS ***

Produced by Gary R. L. Young

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS

By Christopher Marlowe

From The Quarto Of 1616.

Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce.

Comments on the preparation of the E-Text:

SQUARE BRACKETS:
The square brackets, i.e. are copied from the printed book,
without change, except that the stage directions usually do not
have closing brackets. These have been added.

FOOTNOTES:
For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been
consolidated at the end of the play.

Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote
is given a unique identity.

CHANGES TO THE TEXT:
Character names were expanded. For Example, FAUSTUS was FAUST;
SECOND SCHOLAR was SEC. SCHOL.

OTHER COMMENTS:
This E-Text of _Doctor Faustus_ is taken from a volume of
_The Works of Christopher Marlowe_. That volume also contains
an earlier version of the play, based on the text of 1604,
which is available as an E-Text. Some of the notes to the
earlier version are applicable to, and help explain, this
version.

Gary R. Young

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
Written by Ch. Mar. London, Printed for John Wright, and are
to be sold at his shop without Newgate, at the signe of the
Bible, 1616, 4to.

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
With new Additions. Written by Ch. Mar. Printed at London for
John Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate,
1624, 4to.

The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
With new Additions. Written by Ch. Mar. Printed at London for
John Wright, and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate,
1631, 4to.

In a few places I have amended the text of this play by means of
4to 1604.--I have made no use of the comparatively modern edition,
4to 1663.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

THE POPE.
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