The tragical history of Doctor Faustus
dc.contributor | Burnard, Lou |
dc.contributor.author | Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 |
dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:53Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:53Z |
dc.date.created | 1910 |
dc.date.issued | 1992-03-12 |
dc.identifier | ota:1621 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1621 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1621 |
dc.description.abstract | With facsimilies of the original title-pages The text reproduces faithfully ... that of the most reliable version of each work ... and ... has in no sense been modernized.--Pref. |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
dc.title | The tragical history of Doctor Faustus |
dc.type | Text |
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otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<Author>Marlowe, Christopher</Author>
<Title>The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.</Title>
<Edition>The Works of Christopher Marlowe. C. F. Tucker Brooke, ed. 1604 edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910</Edition>
<Date>1588-1593</Date>
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<l>Enter chorus.</l>
<l>Chor. not marching now in fields of trasimene,</l>
<l>Where mars did mate the carthaginians,</l>
<l>Nor sporting in the dalliance of love,</l>
<l>In courts of kings where state is overturned,</l>
<l>Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds,</l>
<l>Intends our muse to daunt his heavenly verse:</l>
<l>Only this (gentlemen) we must perform,</l>
<l>The form of Faustus' fortunes good or bad.</l>
<l>To patient judgments we appeal our plaud,</l>
<l>And speak for Faustus in his infancy:</l>
<l>Now is he born, his parents base of stock,</l>
<l>In germany, within a town called rhodes.</l>
<l>Of riper years to wittenberg he went,</l>
<l>Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought h . . .