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