Doctor Faustus [electronic resource] : Text and Performance

Front Matter....Pages 1-10 Introduction....Pages 11-16 ‘What Doctrine Call You This?’....Pages 16-23 ‘And This the Man’....Pages 23-31 ‘The Form of Faustus’ Fortunes’....Pages 31-36 ‘Heavenly Words’....Pages 36-42 ‘What Means This Show?’....Pages 42-45 Introduction....Pages 46-51 Selecting the Text....Pages 51-56 Playing the Parts....Pages 56-68 Setting the Stage....Pages 68-73 Delighting the Sense....Pages 73-78 Stating the Theme....Pages 78-83 Back Matter....Pages 84-88 In making a pact with Lucifer, Faustus commits what is in a sense the ultimate sin: not only does he disobey God, but he consciously and even eagerly renounces obedience to him, choosing instead to swear allegiance to the devil William Tydeman. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 84-85.