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    The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
    The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
    The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
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    The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce

    By Anthony Kaufman and William Mountfort

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Anthony Kaufman

    Anthony Kaufman is assistant professor at the New School and a film journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, Slate, Variety, Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

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      The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce - Anthony Kaufman

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      Title: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce

      Author: William Mountfort

      Editor: Anthony Kaufman

      Release Date: September 14, 2011 [EBook #37422]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Katie Hernandez, Joseph Cooper

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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      To

      H. T. Swedenberg, Junior

      founder, protector, friend

      He that delights to Plant and Set, Makes After-Ages in his Debt.

      Where could they find another formed so fit,

      To poise, with solid sense, a sprightly wit?

      Were these both wanting, as they both abound,

      Where could so firm integrity be found?

      The verse and emblem are from George Wither, A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Modern (London, 1635), illustration xxxv, page 35.

      The lines of poetry (123-126) are from To My Honoured Kinsman John Driden, in John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden, ed. Sir Walter Scott, rev. and corr. George Saintsbury (Edinburgh: William Patterson, 1885), xi, 78.

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      WILLIAM MOUNTFORT

      The LIFE and DEATH of Doctor Faustus Made into a FARCE

      (1697)

      Introduction by Anthony Kaufman

      PUBLICATION NUMBER 157

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1973

      GENERAL EDITORS

      William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles

      Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles

      David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Earl Miner, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      Carl A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

      Jean T. Shebanek, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Typography by Wm. M. Cheney

      INTRODUCTION

      According to Some Account of the Life of Mr. W. Mountfort prefixed to the collected plays of 1720, William Mountfort, successful playwright and actor, was born "the Son of Captain Mountfort, a Gentleman of a good Family in Staffordshire; and he spent the greatest Part of his Younger Years in that County, without being bred up to any Employment. Since his Gaiety of Temper and Airy Disposition ... could not be easily restrain'd to the solitary Amusements of a Rural Life,"[1] he set out to make his fortune in London, and was employed by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theater. First notice of him appears in the part of the boy in The Counterfeits, attributed to John Leanerd, and produced in May, 1678.[2]

      Mountfort was to win notice as an actor in the part of Talboy in Brome's The Jovial Crew, where as a rejected lover he was called upon for storms of comic tears. In his Apology, Cibber praises Mountfort in this part: "in his Youth, he had acted Low Humour, with great Success, even down to Tallboy in the Jovial Crew"[3] and Mountfort himself alluded to his early success in the prologue to his first play, The Injured Lovers, where he defies the critics: True Talboy to the last I'll Cry and Write.

      Mountfort scored his first major success as an actor when he played the title role in Crowne's Sir Courtly Nice. The play's popularity owed much to Mountfort's acting of a part which recalls Etherege's Sir Fopling Flutter. The Account of 1720 says that Mountfort "gain'd a great and deserved Reputation, as a Player; particularly in Acting the part of Sir Courtly Nice," and Cibber, who was later to create the great Sir Novelty Fashion, says of Mountfort's Sir Courtly:

      There his whole Man, Voice, Mien, and Gesture, was no longer Monfort, but another Person. There, the insipid, soft Civility, the elegant, and formal Mien; the drawling delicacy of Voice, the stately Flatness of his Address, and the empty Eminence of his Attitudes were ... nicely observ'd.... If, some Years after the Death of Monfort, I my self had any Success, in either of these

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