Doctor Faustus

Baron, Frank. Doctor Faustus from history to legend. Miinchen Fink, 1978. 

Mann, Thomas. Doctor Faustus. London Seeker Warburg, 1949. 

After his death, the work of Roger Bacon lapsed into obscurity, no doubt due to his reputation as a sorcerer. Stories of his magical prowess kept his name alive, and in 1589, he featured in a play by Robert Greene, The History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, which competed for audiences with Marlowe s Doctor Faustus. Like Faustus, Bacon regrets his magic, but unlike Marlowe s protagonist, he recants and is allowed to live (it is his slapstick servant, Miles, who is transported to hell). In a more recent tribute, Umberto Eco makes Bacon William of Baskerville s hero in The Name ojthe Rose. 

The most fantastical creations of fairyland are near to being realised before our very eyes. . . Each day our factories turn out wonders as great as those produced by Doctor Faustus with his book of magic.30... 

Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. Edited by John D. Jump. The Revels Plays. Manchester Manchester University Press, 1962. 

All quotations are taken from Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, ed. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, ist edn (Oxford University Press, 1995). 

David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (eds.), Doctor Faustus A- and B-Texts (1604, 1616), Revels Plays (Manchester University Press, 1993) Mark Thornton Burnett (ed.), Christopher Marlowe The Complete Plays, Everyman Library (London Dent, 1999). Unless otherwise stated, all citations of Doctor Faustus are taken from the Everyman edition. 

Richard Halpem, Marlowe s Theatre of Night Doctor Faustus and Capital ,... 

David Bevington, Staging the A- and B-Texts of Doctor Faustus , in Sara Munson Deats and Robert Logan (eds.), Marlowe s Empery Expanding His Critical Contexts (Newark, DE University of Delaware Press, 2002), 50, 58. 

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