The 1604 version was once believed to be closer to the play as originally performed in Marlowe's lifetime, simply because it was older. Additions and alterations were made by the minor playwright and actor Samuel Rowley and by William Borne (or Birde), and possibly by Marlowe himself. The 1616 quarto, published by John Wright, the enlarged and altered text usually called the B text. The text is short for an English Renaissance play, only 1485 lines long. It is merely a direct reprint of the 1604 text. A second edition (A2) of first version was printed by George Eld for John Wright in 1609. The title page attributes the play to "Ch. The 1604 quarto, printed by Valentine Simmes for Thomas Law this is usually called the A text. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later. It was written sometime between 15, and may have been performed between 1592 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Doctor Faustus or, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustusis an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust.
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