Discuss the structure or construction or design of the play, Dr. Faustus. 12 points
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Explanation:
There are such marked differences between the A and B-texts (1604 and 1616) of the play that it is clear that neither is entirely accurate or satisfactory. Accuracy was not necessarily the first concern of those who published play-texts in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The principal reason for publication was to establish rights over the text for a particular acting company or theatre manager.
The condition of the texts suggests that they were compiled from more than one source:
A performance text or texts surviving from the acting company: only the prompter was likely to have a full text, while actors would have only their cues and lines
Individual actors recalling their parts in the play, leading to inevitable errors and omissions
Sections by authors other than Marlowe, especially in the B-text, where there is a record of a theatre-manager paying for the writing of extra scenes to increase the comic and spectacular elements of the play.
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