‘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,
“... anticipation of censorship – and some rewriting by various authors, including Samuel Rowley and William Birde, who were paid for certain ‘adicyones in Doctor Fostes’ in 1602. If we could get back to the play as Marlowe originally wrote it, we might find its ‘message’ a more ambivalent, pluralistic one. The same would be true of its early ... ”
