Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Broadway Translations “_Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety._” [Illustration: AN ALLEGED FAUST PORTRAIT BY JAN JORIS VAN VLIET _After a Sketch by Rembrandt. About 1630_] Broadway Translations THE HISTORY OF THE _DAMNABLE LIFE and DESERVED DEATH_ OF DOCTOR JOHN FAUSTUS 1592 TOGETHER WITH _THE SECOND REPORT OF FAUSTUS_ CONTAINING HIS APPEARANCES AND THE DEEDS OF WAGNER 1594 _Both modernized and edited by_ WILLIAM ROSE, M.A., PH.D. LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, KING’S COLLEGE _With an Introduction_ _With 24 Illustrations chiefly from Woodcuts_ LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE MAYFLOWER PRESS, WILLIAM BRENDON AND SONS LTD. CONTENTS PAGE _Introduction_ 1 I. _The Historical Personage_ 3 II. _The German Faust Book_ 23 III. _Faust in England_ 42 IV. _The Faust Drama in Germany_ 48 V. _The Wagner Book_ 57 THE HISTORIE OF DR. JOHN FAUSTUS CHAPTER PAGE I. _Of his Parentage and Birth_ 65 II. _How Doctor Faustus began to practise in his Devilish Art, and how he conjured the Devil, making him to appear and meet him on the morrow at his own house_ 67 III. _The conference of Doctor Faustus with the Spirit Mephostophiles the morning following at his own house_ 70 IV. _The second time of the Spirit’s appearing to Faustus in his house, and of their parley_ 72 V. _The third parley between Doctor Faustus and Mephostophiles about a conclusion_ 74 VI. _How Doctor Faustus set his blood in a saucer on warm ashes, and writ as followeth_ 76 VII. _How Mephostophiles came for his writing, and in what manner he appeared, and his sights he shewed him: and how he caused him to keep a copy of his own writing_ 77 VIII. _The manner how Faustus proceeded with his damnable life, and of the diligent service Mephostophiles used towards him_ 79 IX. _How Doctor Faustus would have married, and how the Devil had almost killed him for it_ 81 X. _Questions put forth by Doctor Faustus unto his Spirit Mephostophiles_ 84 XI. _How Doctor Faustus dreamed that he had seen