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ISSN (Print) 1892-0888
Published by Volda University College

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Marlowe and Prayer
- Authors: Roy Eriksen
  Pages: 1 - 21
  Abstract: This article argues that Marlowe's persuasive dramatic poetry, the admired but also ridiculed “mighty line,” is closely related to Marlowe's theological training in general and to prayer in particular. The conventions of sincere prayer alluded to in the Good Angel’s line to Faustus in II.i.16 seem deliberately to be pitted against the friars’ traditional or “Catholic,” prayer-like incantation to expell him. Why there has been little focus on this aspect of Marlowe’s grounding in biblical style is hard to tell, especially when there has been such interest in contemporary theological issues in general. This may be so because of Marlowe’s preference for daring topics and because of his reputation as a “reckless” young man about town and a figure associated more readily with the spectacular accusations launched by Robert Greene or John Baines, than with his years of study in theology and related subjects at Corpus Christi in Cambridge.
  PubDate: 2022-06-23
  DOI: 10.15845/emco.v8i1.3710
  Issue No: Vol. 8, No. 1 (2022)
Shakespeare's Canon
- Authors: Charles R.W.D. Moseley
  Pages: 23 - 37
  Abstract: This essay is concerned with how Shakespeare himself might have thought about a canon. What for him were the books that, to use A. S. Byatt’s phrase, “every writer had to know in order to know who they are”' One part
  of that question is easy: the books that every grammar school boy had beaten into him: Livy, Virgil, Ovid, Horace and so on. But how does a writer of his time, and, for that matter, of his calibre, negotiate their legacy'
  PubDate: 2022-06-23
  DOI: 10.15845/emco.v8i1.3712
  Issue No: Vol. 8, No. 1 (2022)
Twinship and Occult References in Twelfth Night
- Authors: Kent Cartwright
  Pages: 39 - 57
  Abstract: We think of Renaissance dramatic comedies as ending when facts and reason dispel misconceptions, such that a rational and coherent picture of the narrative whole emerges. Yet in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night certain elements in the denouement—involving nature, androgyny, and spiritual genius and related to magic and occultism—emphasize a multiplicity or surplus of meaning that resists rationalization and closure. With such devices, Shakespeare imbues comedy with intellectual depth, memorability, and affective power, even joy.
  PubDate: 2022-06-23
  DOI: 10.15845/emco.v8i1.3711
  Issue No: Vol. 8, No. 1 (2022)

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