 | Helga Druxes - 1993 - 166 pagine
...the main tradition of the novel, one Boston bookseller sold in the Colonies sixty-six copies of The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus. It was ... a record unapproached in those times by any other "light literature."" Building a new society... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 pagine
...the main tradition of the novel, one Boston bookseller sold in the Colonies sixty-six copies of The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus. It was, needless to say, a record unapproached in those times by any other "light literature." When... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 394 pagine
...STEEVENS: The metamorphosis of Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr. Faustus made that every one... | |
 | Brian M. Stableford - 2006 - 758 pagine
...becoming one of the most successful of modern legends. It was translated into English as Faustus: The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus (1592) by "PR, Gent." The original was rapidly followed by the Wagnerbuch (1593; trans. 1594 as The... | |
 | John Herbert Slater, William Roberta, F. Partridge - 1898 - 730 pagine
...Death of Dr. John Faustus." The edition of 1650 was reprinted at London in 1821. — ED.] 5082 Faustus. History of the Damnable Life, and deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, newly printed, translated into English by PR, cut on title (margins cut into), half bound, C. Brown... | |
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Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr. 
