A Textual Companion to Doctor Faustus

Eric Rasmussen, Assistant Professor of English Eric Rasmussen, PH.D. — 1993

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus survives in two considerably different versions: the A-text (1604) and the B-text (1616). For generations of editors, the existence of these two versions has posed one of the most complex textual problems in English literature.