The forme of Faustus fortunes

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.

Year

1986

Language

English

Publisher

Solum Forlag

Editions

1

Pages

233

ISBN

9780391034402

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