The forme of Faustus fortunes
a study of The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus, 1616
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Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2714349M
- ISBN-100391034405
- OCLC Control Number13396904
- OCLC Control Numberformeoffaustusfo0000erik
- Library of Congress Control Number86007285
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- Goodreads2384971
- LibraryThing2133517
Classifications
- DDC822/.3
- LCCPR2664 .E74 1987
Description
The book presents a topomorphical analysis of the B-text of Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the first extant editions of which survive in copies printed in 1604 and 1616. The analysis reveals that the B-text (1616) has a dispositio,ie a balanced structure, consisting of 20 scenes and 4 choruses, and a double time frame both matching the 24 years of Faustus's compact with the devil. Also, the book identifies and analyzes Marlowe's highly controlled style of speech composition, a feature that is much in evidence in the play's central sequnces of disputed authorship. The A-text (1604) does not reproduce this feature in the materials the two versions share in common, making it the later version of the two.
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