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Doctor Faustus de Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus: New Mermaids

Autor Christopher Marlowe Editat de Paul Menzer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2018

Christopher Marlowe, figura centrală a teatrului elisabetan înainte de ascensiunea lui Shakespeare, a oferit prin Dr. Faustus una dintre cele mai profunde explorări ale condiției umane și ale limitelor ambiției. Găsim în această lucrare tranziția de la mitul popular german la tragedia clasică, unde doctorul învățat nu mai este doar un personaj de farsă, ci un simbol al omului modern sfâșiat între aspirația spre divin și tentațiile materiale. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în echilibrul dintre elementele fantastice — viziunile cu Lucifer, îngerii în duel sau Cele Șapte Păcate Capitale — și monologurile interioare încărcate de o intensitate tragică autentică. Stilul lui Marlowe se remarcă prin utilizarea magistrală a versului alb, o inovație tehnică ce a oferit textului o cadență solemnă, potrivită pentru gravitatea temei pactului diavolesc. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări incluse în antologii precum Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays sau The Complete Plays, unde explorarea puterii politice este centrală (ca în 'Tamburlaine' sau 'Edward II'), Dr. Faustus se concentrează pe o bătălie metafizică, individuală. Ca alternativă la ediția Doctor Faustus and Other Plays din seria Oxford World's Classics, acest volum de la Dover Publications oferă un format esențializat, ideal pentru studiu aprofundat sau pentru cei care doresc să descopere piesa într-o formă accesibilă, fără aparatul critic extins al volumelor colective, dar păstrând întreaga bogăție a limbajului original.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474295178
ISBN-10: 1474295177
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria New Mermaids

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție cititorilor pasionați de literatura elisabetană și de marile mituri ale culturii occidentale. Cititorul câștigă acces la textul fundamental care a definit tema pactului cu diavolul, beneficiind de un stil poetic rafinat. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile tragediei moderne și influența masivă pe care Marlowe a exercitat-o asupra teatrului universal, totul într-un format portabil și clar.

Despre autor

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) a fost cel mai proeminent dramaturg, poet și traducător din Londra anilor premergători morții sale premature și misterioase. Contemporan cu William Shakespeare, Marlowe a revoluționat teatrul englez prin introducerea versului alb și prin crearea unor protagoniști dominanți, ale căror pasiuni extreme depășesc limitele morale ale epocii. Viața sa, marcată de acuzații de spionaj și violență, s-a încheiat tragic la doar 29 de ani, însă opera sa a rămas un pilon al literaturii engleze, influențând generații de scriitori prin amestecul său unic de umanism, realism emoțional și spectacol grandios.

Descriere

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries.

As well as the complete text of the play, this re-edited New Mermaids edition includes:

· A detailed plot summary and annotations throughout the text
· An annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading
· A comprehensive introduction exploring the historical and literary context, and performance history, including Orson Welles's 1937 role as Doctor Faustus as well as recent productions at The Globe and the RSC

One of the most spectacular and popular plays of the Elizabethan stage, Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, with its fantastical mix of high-minded theology and low-brow slapstick, has allured generations of readers and playgoers in the ensuing centuries.

Cuprins

Introduction
Preface
Plot summary
Analysis
1. Historical and literary contexts
2. Performance aspects of the text
3. Critical interpretations
Resources and annotated bibliography
A note on the text
The Play

Textul de pe ultima copertă

One of the most durable myths in Western culture, the story of Faust tells of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Early enactments of Faust's damnation were often the raffish fare of clowns and low comedians. But the young Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564 1593) recognized in the story of Faust's temptation and fall the elements of tragedy.
In his epic treatment of the Faust legend, Marlowe retains much of the rich phantasmagoria of its origins. There are florid visions of an enraged Lucifer, dueling angels, the Seven Deadly Sins, Faustus tormenting the Pope, and his summoning of the spirit of Alexander the Great. But the playwright created equally powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man's calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.
With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that foreshadowed the later work of Shakespeare and the Jacobean playwrights, Marlowe created in Dr. Faustus one of the first true tragedies in English. Vividly dramatic, rich in poetic grandeur, this classic play remains a robust and lively exemplar of the glories of Elizabethan drama."

Notă biografică

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare’s birth. Like Shakespeare, he was of a prosperous middle-class family, but unlike Shakespeare he went to a university, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he received the bachelor’s degree in 1584 and the master’s degree in 1587. The terms of his scholarship implied that he was preparing for the clergy but he did not become a clergyman. Shortly before he received his M.A. the University seems to have wished to withhold it, apparently suspecting him of conversion to Roman Catholicism, but the Queen’s Privy Council intervened on his behalf, stating that he “had done her majesty good service” and had been employed “in matters touching the benefit of the country.” His precise service is unknown. After Cambridge, Marlowe went to London, where he apparently lived a turbulent life (he had two brushes with the law and was said to be disreputable) while pursuing a career as a dramatist. He wrote seven plays--the dates of which are uncertain--before he was yet again in legal difficulties: he was arrested in 1593, accused of atheism. He was not imprisoned, and before his case could be decided he was dead, having been stabbed in a tavern while quarreling over the bill.

Recenzii

Doctor Faustus is one of early modern English drama’s most fascinating characters, and Doctor Faustus one of its most problematic plays. Selling his soul to Lucifer in return for twenty-four years of power, wealth, knowledge, and sex, Doctor Faustus is at once an aspiring Renaissance magus and the hardened reprobate of Protestant theology. The introduction, annotations, and appendices of this edition, which is based on the 1616 B text, situate the play in the dynamic cultural changes of the early modern period.
The first appendix allows the reader to compare the 1616 B text to its earlier printed version, the A text, and also reproduces a variant scene from the 1663 edition of the play’s revision for the Restoration stage. Substantial excerpts from The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, the play’s major source, offer insight into the process of adaptation by which prose fiction becomes spectacular theatre. Other appendices reproduce contemporary material on Renaissance magic, witchcraft, theology, Marlowe’s biography, and the development of his literary reputation.

“Mathew R. Martin already has an admirable track record as an editor of Marlowe’s plays; this edition of Doctor Faustus: The B Text will only enhance that reputation. The lucid Introduction is based on ample research, but Martin wears his scholarship so well that reading his prose is a pleasure. The decision to bring out an edition of the B Text is both timely and courageous. For twenty-four years, to use a Faustian interval, editors have tended to prefer the A Text (1604) to its cousin B (1616). Now the B Text has at last received the painstaking attention regularly given to A. That will not resolve the riddle of the relationship between the two, but at least it will put into the hands of Marlowe’s readers the particulars they need for balanced appraisal and comparison.” — Ronald Huebert, Dalhousie University
“Sensitively introduced, lucidly edited, and drawing upon a wide range of modern criticism, Mathew Martin’s edition of the B text of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is one that will amply repay the attention of scholars and students alike. In particular, the richly furnished contextual material offered here enables readers to engage more fully with some of the complex philosophical, theological, magical, and cultural tensions that Marlowe’s great drama explores so hauntingly.” — Adrian Streete, Queen’s University, Belfast