Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume II: Dr Faustus

This volume of Christopher Marlowe's works is devoted to "Dr Faustus", which is now edited from the edition of 1604. The play is critically discussed and new theories of the text are outlined. Extracts from "The English Faustbook", the main source of the play, are also appended. Despite the modern fascination with Marlowe, and in particular with "Dr Faustus", there has been no edition of his works which not only gives them in their original spelling with full textual apparatus, but also supplies a detailed commentary. This series, edited in three volumes, attempts to supply the need for a fully annotated scholarly treatment of the works.

`This edition of the A-Text of Doctor Facustus is very welcome. Roma Gill presents us here with an excellent working edition. The notes are informative and uncluttered ... The editor's scholarship is everywhere present, and so is her enthusiasm for the play. That makes for an excellent combination. The book is handsomely produced by Oxford University Press.' Colin Wilcockson, Review of English Studies, `The text is well edited, and the policy of using the original spelling is encouraging.' Notes and Queries, 'an excellent introduction and extensive commentary ... One learns valuable things here.' John D. Cox, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, YES, 22, 1992, `Gill shows that a few intelligent revisions are sufficient to make the A-text a striking literary and dramatic work in its own right.' Peter Goldstein, The Sixteenth Century Journal, clearly intended for the scholarly market...a critically edited old-spelling edition based on the A text...If Gill's hypothesis is correct, and it makes sense, then she has here offered a solid objection to Kirschbaum's arguments about the b text's priority in the line of transmission.

Editor of ten texts in the Oxford School Shakespeare and The Plays of Christopher Marlowe (OUP 1971). Formerly a General Editor of the New Mermaid Texts, and Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield