There is only one extant copy remaining of following anonymously written The history of Doctor John Faustus compiled in verse, very pleasant and Delightful in the British Library. This text appears to have been at least somewhat popular as it was reprinted by an unknown publisher in 1696. Students in the Spring 2018 section of “A Rogue’s Progress” worked from a blackletter facsimile copy available through the Early English Books Online database to transcribe, encode, and edit this work using Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. The blackletter font in the facsimile has been represented by bold-face type throughout the document.

Project Intern Rowan Pereira (Stonehill ’19) edited this document during the Fall 2018 semester. Please click on the title link below to access the latest edition published on the TAPAS (TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service) website.

The history of Doctor John Faustus compiled in verse, very pleasant and delightfull. Printed by E. Cotes, and are to be sold by Charles Tyus at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1664 (Wing H2117).

An image of the title page of Christopher Marlowe's "The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus".
An image of the title page of Christopher Marlowe’s “The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus”. Image has been sourced from the Folger Digital Image Library, also known as LUNA.

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The history of Doctor John Faustus compiled in verse, very pleasant and delightfull (1664)