Both are sensible and workmanlike, as is the editing. The introduction is very brief-a few pages-and the note on the editing of the text is spartan. So, the convenient layout clearly wouldn't have worked for these editors.)Īs I said, the Norton Critical Edition is front-runner. (Ward has one hundred pages of notes on top of almost two hundred pages of Introduction and there are many places in the new Revels Plays edition where the notes cover more of the page than the text. It is disappointing that more publishers do not adopt this approach, but the reason might be that it does limit what you can say. I also like the fact that the notes are on facing pages to the text. I prefer the text and introduction to the Ormerod and Wortham edition, though the actual notes to the text are not as extensive as most other editions.
The only one that I haven't had a very close look at is the new Revels Plays edition, but it would have to be a lot more impressive than both the old Revels Plays edition and the World's Classics edition edited by the same editors, in order to come close to the front-runner for my Dark Hero course: the Norton Critical Edition. I have been looking at the newbies (bottom row) in order to select a text for my Dark Hero course, but I have been progressively re-examining the others too. ¶ Excellent on criticism, a useful bibliography text and notes sensible brief introduction. Doctor Faustus: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995). Doctor Faustus: A-and B-texts (1604, 1616), David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (1993 rpr. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (1995 rpr. William Tydeman, Doctor Faustus: Text and Performance (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1984). David Ormerod and Christopher Wortham (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1985). Michael Keefer (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1991). Doctor Faustus: A 1604-version edition, ed. I only have this because I love these thin-paper editions. Marlowe, The Plays and Poems (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., ). ¶ Amazing introduction, excellent notes and contextualising primary material, obviously the criticism and bibliography are very dated based on the A text, sensibly edited (except, apparently, it is silently bowdlerised!).
Marlowe, Tragical history of Doctor Faustus Greene, Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, ed. From The Works and Life of Christopher Marlowe series. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, edited by Frederick S.
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