Alyssa'a Annotated Bibliography on Dr. Faustus and Judith

Working Annotated Bibliography

So far my research has directed me towards the religious and cultural influences on the language used during the Anglo-Saxon and Renaissance periods of England. Because both Dr. Faustus and Judith center around religious practices and beliefs, I wanted to explore how Christianity and types of Christianity are portrayed in both of these texts, and see if there was any connection between each presentation.

[Scholarly source via an email exchange with a professor]
Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Charles University in Prague, 2010, http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/. Accessed 23 March 2020.I used this dictionary last semester to help me write on and Old English text, and it is quite helpful in giving possible translations and meanings of Old English words and phrases. I intend to use this to help me decipher the intentions surrounding Judith's writing and analyze the formal elements of the poem.

[BYU English Literatures database]
Chickering, Howell. “Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith.” Studies in Philology, vol. 106, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 119–136. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prf&AN=37180756&site=prc-live.This essay discusses the formal elements of Judith, especially how the tone of the poem influences its meaning and message to the reader. I find it interesting that the author used the word "exuberance" to describe the poem's formal qualities; I think it will be interesting to further explore the implications of the celebratory language in the text as a potential form of propaganda.

[The BYU Library database page]
MARSHALL, PETER. "The Reformation of Hell? Protestant and Catholic Infernalisms in England, c. 1560-1640." The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61.2 (2010): 279-98. ProQuest. 23 Mar. 2020 .This paper differentiates the Catholic and Protestant versions of hell. Because the concepts of heaven and hell are so central to Dr. Faustus, I want to look at the play to see how Marlowe portrayed each, and whether this portrayal aligned more with the Catholic or Protestant version of the afterlife. Knowing which version he used of heaven and hell will help me to gauge how this play would have been received by his mostly-Protestant English audience.

[Amazon]
Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Harris, John D. E-book, John Harris, dba, 2018.This annotated version of Dr. Faustus gives insight into the legend of Dr. Faustus and the deliberate changes Marlowe made to the story for a mostly Protestant English audience. The editor has made some comments on the ironic play on words that Marlowe has made in Faustus' name, and notes some allusions to other faustian figures in that time period.

[E-book through BYU's library page]
The Anglo-Saxons : Synthesis and Achievement, edited by J. Douglas Woods, and David A. E. Pelteret, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/byu/detail.action?docID=685986.This book explores the different kinds of propaganda used to tell the history of the Anglo-Saxons in England (such as the Bayeux tapestry, though this was woven after the Norman conquest), as well as discusses the culture of the Anglo-Saxon period during the time that Judith was probably written. Since the Anglo-Saxons were trying to unite the people of the country (which the Anglo-Saxons themselves had invaded just a few centuries earlier) against the Vikings, this book is particularly interesting to use as a filter for what kind of characteristics are applied to the heroine Judith.