A detailed Introduction that enables a close reading of the play in the context of newer, more recent critical approaches.An appendix providing select details of A text (1604) in a manner that facilitates a comparative study of A and B text.Primary source material that includes selections from The English Faust Book, John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments and Nathaniel Wood’s Conflict of Conscience.Additional Background material incorporates articles on magic by Pico Dela Mirandola, Cornelius Agrippa and John Dee. A section on the Reformation provides Lollard documents and pamphlets written by Luther and Calvin. Another section inudes polemical, contemporary documents, such as Baine’s indictment against Marlowe and extracts from essays written by Charles Lamb and William HazzlittIt also carries the reprint of four seminal essays.