书名：Doctor Faustus浮士德博士的悲剧

作者：Christopher Marlowe克利斯托弗·马洛
译者：Peter Salm
出版社名称：Singet Classics
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531612
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.8 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：272 （以实物为准）
浮士德是传说中半神话半真实的人物。他学识过人，但对权力、财富与知识有着永不满足的欲望。于是，他把自己的灵魂抵押给魔鬼，换取二十四年为所欲为的岁月，如果他得到满足，魔鬼就会收去他的灵魂。在生命终结前的一刻，浮士德究竟能否得到一点启示、一点觉悟？

Doctor Faustus《浮士德博士的悲剧》是英国剧作家马洛（Christopher Marlowe）1588年出版的剧本，在英国伊莉莎白时期极具影响力。作品根据新译成英国的德国民间故事书而写成，叙述浮士德把灵魂卖给魔鬼，魔鬼供他驱使二十四年，到期他的灵魂被魔鬼劫往地狱的故事。
马洛是“前莎士比亚时代”中一位真正的天才，但是他性格本身也就带有著许多“天才”必有的狂妄因子。他激烈的反对宗教，是世俗教义的叛徒，真正的无神论者。
马洛是个十足的叛逆者。他不屈从权威和传统，善于创新求异，赋予他作品燃烧的激情和旺盛的生命力。马洛在剧中所刻画的浮士德形象，不只是一个投机事业者。这里的浮士德，全然为着自己的意志力所推动，飘荡在狂妄的反基督虚无主义与放任悲观主义中。与魔鬼订约后的他，倾其所能的享乐，与海伦发生关系、戏弄主教、辱骂上帝，对一切的神学嗤之以鼻。在这里，浮士德的偏执到了一种丧心病狂的地步，因为他真的一脚踢开所有的神学，与之划清界限之余，拼命地投靠魔鬼的阵营。
本书是Signet Classics出版的便携装英文原版，由美国文学批评家、莎士比亚学者Sylvan Barnet编辑并写序言，并补充浮士德故事素材以及其他评论家的文章，诠释丰富，介绍全面。

In this brilliant dramatization of the Faust story, a scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for limitless knowledge and powerful black magic, yet he remains unfulfilled, serving as a warning to those who would sacrifice everything sacred for mere earthly gain.
But Marlowe’s play is also a symbolic analysis of the shift from the late-medieval world, which valued most the theologian’s contemplation, to the early-modern world, which favoured the rational analyses of statement and scientists. Caught between these ideals, Faustus is both a tragic fool destroyed by his own ambition and a hero at the forefront of a changing society. In Doctor Faustus, Marlowe thoughtfully examines faith and enlightenment, nature and science—and the terrible costs of the objects of our desire.
This new edition of Marlowe’s classic includes an introduction, a history of the play onstage, and an updated bibliography by the editor, Sylvan Barbet of Tufts University. Also included are generous selections from the historical source of Doctor Faustus and illuminating commentaries by Richard B. Sewall, G. K. Hunter, David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, and John Russell brown, as well as a new critical essay by Kevin Dunn.
EDITED AND WITH A INTRODUCTION BY SYLVAN BARNET
克利斯托弗·马洛（1564~1593），英国诗人，剧作家，大学才子派的代表。1564年3月6日生于坎特伯雷一个富有鞋匠之家，1593年5月30日卒于伦敦附近的德特福德。1587年在剑桥大学获硕士学位。在伦敦期间曾与探险家、政治活动家罗利，剧作家查普曼，数学家哈里奥特等怀疑宗教者结成团体，人称黑夜派和无神论者。曾一度入狱。后在一次决斗中被人刺死。马洛共写了7部剧本，均属悲剧或带有悲剧意味的历史剧：《帖木儿》《浮士德博士的悲剧》《马耳他的犹太人》《爱德华二世》《迦太基女王狄多》和《巴黎的大屠杀》。后两剧可能是与剧作家纳什合作，时间不能确定。马洛革新了中世纪的戏剧，在舞台上创造了反映时代精神的巨人性格和“雄伟的诗行”，为莎士比亚的创作铺平了道路。

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare’s birth. Like Shakespeare, he was of a prosperous middle-class family, but unlike Shakespeare he went to a university, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he received the bachelor’s degree in 1584 and the master’s degree in 1587. The terms of his scholarship implied that he was preparing for the clergy but he did not become a clergyman. Shortly before he received his M.A. the University seems to have wished to withhold it, apparently suspecting him of conversion to Roman Catholicism, but the Queen’s Privy Council intervened on his behalf, stating that he “had done her majesty good service” and had been employed “in matters touching the benefit of the country.” His precise service is unknown. After Cambridge, Marlowe went to London, where he apparently lived a turbulent life (he had two brushes with the law and was said to be disreputable) while pursuing a career as a dramatist. He wrote seven plays--the dates of which are uncertain--before he was yet again in legal difficulties: he was arrested in 1593, accused of atheism. He was not imprisoned, and before his case could be decided he was dead, having been stabbed in a tavern while quarreling over the bill.