Produced by Gary R L YoungTHE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUSBy Christopher MarloweFrom The Quarto Of 1616Edited By The Rev Alexander DyceComments on the preparation of the ETextSQUARE BRACKETSThe square brackets ie are copied from the printed bookwithout change except that the stage directions usually do nothave closing brackets  These have been addedFOOTNOTESFor this EText version of the book the footnotes have beenconsolidated at the end of the playNumbering of the footnotes has been changed and each footnoteis given a unique identityCHANGES TO THE TEXTCharacter names were expanded  For Example FAUSTUS was FAUSTSECOND SCHOLAR was SEC SCHOLOTHER COMMENTSThis EText of _Doctor Faustus_ is taken from a volume of_The Works of Christopher Marlowe_  That volume also containsan earlier version of the play based on the text of 1604which is available as an EText  Some of the notes to theearlier version are applicable to and help explain thisversionGary R YoungThe Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor FaustusWritten by Ch Mar London Printed for John Wright and areto be sold at his shop without Newgate at the signe of theBible 1616 4toThe Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor FaustusWith new Additions  Written by Ch Mar  Printed at London forJohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate1624 4toThe Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor FaustusWith new Additions  Written by Ch Mar  Printed at London forJohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate1631 4toIn a few places I have amended the text of this play by means of4to 1604I have made no use of the comparatively modern edition4to 1663DRAMATIS PERSONAE     THE POPE     THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY     RAYMOND king of Hungary     DUKE OF SAXONY     BRUNO     DUKE OF VANHOLT     MARTINO          FREDERICK    gentlemen     BENVOLIO         FAUSTUS     VALDES       friends to FAUSTUS     CORNELIUS        WAGNER servant to FAUSTUS     Clown     ROBIN     DICK     Vintner     Horsecourser     Carter     An Old Man     Scholars Cardinals ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS Bishops Monks          Friars Soldiers and Attendants     DUCHESS OF VANHOLT     Hostess     LUCIFER     BELZEBUB     MEPHISTOPHILIS     Good Angel     Evil Angel     The Seven Deadly Sins     Devils     Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT of his Paramour          of DARIUS and of HELEN     ChorusTHE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUSFROM THE QUARTO OF 1616          Enter CHORUS     CHORUS Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene     Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens 1     Nor sporting in the dalliance of love     In courts of kings where state is overturnd     Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds     Intends our Muse to vaunt her 2 heavenly verse     Only this gentleswe must now perform     The form of Faustus fortunes good or bad     And now to patient judgments we appeal     And speak for Faustus in his infancy     Now is he born of parents base of stock     In Germany within a town calld Rhodes     At riper years to Wittenberg he went     Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up     So much he profits in divinity     That shortly he was gracd with doctors name     Excelling all and sweetly can dispute     In th heavenly matters of theology     Till swoln with cunning of 3 a selfconceit     His waxen wings did mount above his reach     And melting heavens conspird his overthrow     For falling to a devilish exercise     And glutted now with learnings golden gifts     He surfeits upon 4 cursed necromancy     Nothing so sweet as magic is to him     Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss     And this the man that in his study sits          Exit          FAUSTUS discovered in his study     FAUSTUS Settle thy studies Faustus and begin     To sound the depth of that thou wilt profess     Having commencd be a divine in show     Yet level at the end of every art     And live and die in Aristotles works     Sweet Analytics tis thou hast ravishd me     Bene disserere est finis logices     Is to dispute well logics chiefest end     Affords this art no greater miracle     Then read no more thou hast attaind that end     A greater subject fitteth