‘Faustus’ and the Politics of Magic
Charles Nicholl, 8 March 1990
Dr Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe, edited by Roma Gill.
Black, 109 pp., £3.95, December 1989,0 7136 3231 3 Show More
by Christopher Marlowe, edited by Roma Gill.
Black, 109 pp., £3.95, December 1989,
Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare
by John Mebane.
Nebraska, 309 pp., £26.95, July 1989,0 8032 3133 4 Show More
by John Mebane.
Nebraska, 309 pp., £26.95, July 1989,
Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance
by William Huffman.
Routledge, 252 pp., £30, November 1989,0 415 00129 3 Show More
by William Huffman.
Routledge, 252 pp., £30, November 1989,
Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England
by Patrick Curry.
Polity, 238 pp., £27.50, September 1989,0 7456 0604 0 Show More
by Patrick Curry.
Polity, 238 pp., £27.50, September 1989,
“... readings, and in some cases whole different scenes. In her excellent new edition of the play, Roma Gill argues fiercely for the A-Text of 1604. It is shorter by six hundred lines, but she believes it is ‘something more like the play that Marlowe wrote’. It is certainly useful to have it: there is no good modern-spelling edition based on the ... ”