Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century

THE HISTORY OF DR. JOHN FAUSTUS.

Reading edition

There is very little similarity between this history and Goethe's beautiful drama. This is essentially vulgar, and perfectly fitted for the popular taste it catered for; but we, who are familiar with Goethe's masterpiece, can hardly read it without a shudder. It has been given at length, because it is a type of its class.

Rox. II. 235 and 643 m. 10, the date of both being attributed 1670. (return)

55.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Probably the original of that ballad, "The Judgment of God shewed upon one J. Faustus Dr. in Divinity," of which the British Museum possesse Note 2 · The History of Faust (who, as far as one can learn, existed early in the sixteenth century) has been repeatedly written, especially in Germa