The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce

Name: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
Author: Christopher Marlowe

by Christopher Marlowe, William Mountfort

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Description

Based on C. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

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Series

Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 157

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Katie Hernandez, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2011-09-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama

About the authors

Christopher Marlowe

1564–1593

A dazzling and dangerous talent of the English Renaissance, this playwright and poet helped shape the stage before dying violently at just 29. His work is bold, musical, and full of restless ambition, from overreaching scholars to conquerors and kings.

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William Mountfort

d. 1692

A lively Restoration actor-playwright, he rose quickly on the London stage and became known for polished "fine gentleman" roles before his life was cut short in a sensational 1692 killing.

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