Doctor Faustus: With Introductory Essay & Notes: With Introductory Essay and Notes
Author(s): Irving Ribner
James H. Lake and Irving Ribner's edition of Doctor Faustus is an annotated version, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1616 B-text. James H. Lake's Introduction discusses the play's historical and dramatic contexts, but focuses on its performance history from the Elizabethan era to our own, including film productions. Textual notes discuss variations between the A and B texts. Interviews with Ralph Alan Cohen of Shenandoah Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber (Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) as well as illustrations from theatre and film performances included.
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James H. Lake (Ph.D. University of Delaware) is Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and has been appointed to the faculty of the Greco Institute. He has served as Director of the LSUS Joys of Learning Humanities Seminars for the Elderly, Director of the University's Honors Program and Director of the LSUS Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program. He has served on numerous boards, including the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Board of Directors of the Noel Foundation, and the editorial board of Shakespeare and the Classroom. He has published widely on Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Film, has edited the Focus-on- Performance edition of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and is the Series Editor for the New Kittredge Shakespeare.
General Fields
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- : Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
- : Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
- : 0.188
- : 01 March 2004
- : 228mm X 6mm X 8mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Irving Ribner
- : Irving Ribner
- : illustrations
- : illustrations
- : 114
- : 114
- : 822.3
- : 822.3
- : Paperback
- : Paperback