The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus / From the Quarto of 1616

by Christopher Marlowe

Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce.

Transcribers Comments on the preparation of the E-Text:

SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added.

FOOTNOTES: For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play.

Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given a unique identity.

CHANGES TO THE TEXT: Character names were expanded. For Example, FAUSTUS was FAUST; SECOND SCHOLAR was SEC. SCHOL.

OTHER COMMENTS: This E-Text of Doctor Faustus is taken from a volume of The Works of Christopher Marlowe. That volume also contains an earlier version of the play, based on the text of 1604, which is available as an E-Text. Some of the notes to the earlier version are applicable to, and help explain, this version.

Gary R. Young

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