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Doctor Faustus At Rome, Clifford Davidson
Doctor Faustus At Rome, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
A new examination of the scene at Rome as it appears in the 1616 quarto of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is necessary since we can no longer assume, as did Leslie Oliver ("Rowley, Foxe, and the Faustus Additions," MLN, LX [1945], 391-394), that the episode was mainly the work of Rowley. The more detailed account of the visit to the papal court in the 1616 text has been demonstrated to be closer to what Marlowe wrote and, furthermore, it is not irrelevant to the design of the play. Like Faustus, the proud Pope Adrian pretends to an absolute power which ultimately …