{"product_id":"doctor-faustus-9780872207295","title":"Doctor Faustus","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher Marlowe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45321038364823,"sku":"9780872207295","price":1363.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780872207295.webp?v=1769288808","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/doctor-faustus-9780872207295","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}