How Marlowe portrays magic in the opening of Doctor Faustus
Necromancy/Goetia
Intersesting
'necromantic books are heavenly'
Illicit
'Damned book'
'Cursed necromancy'
Natural/progressive
'Go forward'
'nature's treasury'
'Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky'
Desirbale
Intelligent
'Is promised to the studious artisan'
'try thy brains to gain a deity'
'fitteth Faustus' wit'
CONTEXT: In 16th century England black magic was strictly prohibited, as it was said to defy God and the Natural Order