ELH., Volume 71Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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... Mephastophilis should be understood in the first instance as a purveyor of special effects . Mephastophilis , in other words , provides exactly those as- pects of drama that do not flow from the pen of the playwright : the visual and ...
... Mephastophilis should be understood in the first instance as a purveyor of special effects . Mephastophilis , in other words , provides exactly those as- pects of drama that do not flow from the pen of the playwright : the visual and ...
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... Mephastophilis himself , at which point Faustus declares himself " conjurer laureate ” ( DF , 3.33 ) . But then Mephastophilis bursts his balloon by declaring that " I came now hither of mine own accord . " " Did not my conjuring ...
... Mephastophilis himself , at which point Faustus declares himself " conjurer laureate ” ( DF , 3.33 ) . But then Mephastophilis bursts his balloon by declaring that " I came now hither of mine own accord . " " Did not my conjuring ...
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Mephastophilis actually stands as he says these words . Antitheatrical writers often described the stage as a devilish place- " the chapel of Satan , " as Anthony Munday put it.32 Mephastophilis defines the theater as precisely a space ...
Mephastophilis actually stands as he says these words . Antitheatrical writers often described the stage as a devilish place- " the chapel of Satan , " as Anthony Munday put it.32 Mephastophilis defines the theater as precisely a space ...
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Constructing the Sexual Subject of John Skelton | 29 |
Merrie John Heywood | 53 |
Wit Print Performance | 89 |
Copyright | |
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