ABSTRACT
So far, the chapters have focused on factual information uncovered in archives and records. By contrast, the second part of the volume offers a series of four case studies, thereby shifting the readers’ attention to contextual and rhetorical analyses of scripted texts and their material, social and cultural foundations. Though text-based, the present chapter draws more specifically on iconography and topicality to suggest a new order of composition of Doctor Faustus as a play shaped by censorship and self-censorship.
