Baldwin, William - Andrew Hadfield (essay date September 1992)
Andrew Hadfield (essay date September 1992)
SOURCE: Hadfield, Andrew. “A Possible Source of the Horse-Corser Episode in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.” Notes and Queries 39, no. 3 (September 1992): 303-04.
[In the following essay, Hadfield suggests that an episode in Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus was adapted from a passage in Beware the Cat.]
It is generally agreed by scholars that the incident of the horse-corser in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, extant in both ‘A’ and ‘B’ texts, is either the work of Marlowe's anonymous collaborator or co-written by the collaborator with Marlowe.1 It is possible that this episode may have been adapted from a passage in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, perhaps first published in 1561,2 entered into the Stationers' Register between 22 July 1568 and 22 July 15693 and surviving in two editions of 1570 and 1584 recorded in the...
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