This adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, titled The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce, is a comedic reinterpretation of Marlowe’s tragic play, written by William Mountfort. The farce, first performed in 1683, takes the original's somber exploration of ambition and damnation and reimagines it in a lighter, more humorous context. Mountfort's version alters the serious themes of the original play, using slapstick comedy, satire, and exaggerated characters to p...

This volume contains complete works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, William Mountfort, H. B. Cotterill, and Arthur Davison Ficke, all on the same theme of a pact with the devil. Included are the following complete works: Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (commonly known as Wolfgang Goethe), which is the most famous of the Faustian plays. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, which is the seminal work that influenced G...

William Mountfort’s Greenwich Park (1691), produced in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, takes comic action to the green spaces east of London where urbane rakes court witty young ladies surrounded by a lively gallery including roistering citizens, an adulterous wife and a charismatic kept mistress. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text, together with an introduction analysing the processes of evolution and transition articulated by this...