Doctor Faustus

I'm usually not that into Elizabethan plays. However, I really liked Doctor Faustus. Marlowe's language is easy to understand compared to Shakespeare. The plot of the play is very interesting, and I like how Marlowe handles humour and melodrama. And, there are some wonderful soliloquies!This one about Helen of Troy is absolutely wonderful!Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies!Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,And all is dross that is not Helena.I will be Paris, and for love of thee,Instead of Troy, shall Wittenberg be sack'd;And I will combat with weak Menelaus,And wear thy colours on my plumed crest;Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,And then return to Helen for a kiss.O, thou art fairer than the evening airClad in the beauty of a thousand stars;Brighter art thou than flaming JupiterWhen he appear'd to hapless Semele;More lovely than the monarch of the skyIn wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms;And none but thou shalt be my paramour!

Content is very good... But the book I received was not in much of a good shape.

Good.... happy to get Oxford edition

The book is good

No false ..true and genuine publications

Great play.

Good book

Good book.