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Valeat numen triplex Jehovoe!  \nIgnei, aerii, aquatani spiritus, salvete! Orientis princeps  \nBelzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus  \nvos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis, quod tumeraris:  \nper Jehovam, Gehennam, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo, signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc  \nsurgat nobis dicatus Mephistophilis! (Faustus 1.3.16-24)  \nIN THE EARLY 1590S, IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, A COMPANY OF ACTORS WAS PASSING THROUGH Exeter, touring their production of Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Touring was by no means as lucrative as playing in London, but plague and licensing issues had shut the theatres and ground the clockwork of city life to a halt (it is during this downtime, for example, that Shakespeare is frequently imagined to have found time for his sonnet sequence—perhaps an income-supplementing private commission that turned into something rather else), making life on the road a steady, ifunglamorous, alternative, and Marlowe’s Faustus, with its broad spectacle of magic and witchcraft, had proved a crowd-pleasing favourite.  \nBut according to an early 17th century commonplace book, as the actor playing Faustus that night began to intone Marlowe’s incantation ritual (see above), and dancers dressed as  \ndemons emerged to the sound of drums from their trapdoor beneath the stage, something went horribly awry:  \n[…] as certain number of Devils kept everyone his circle there, and as  \nFaustus was busy in his magical invocations, on a sudden [the dancers]  \nwere all dashed, everyone harkening other in the ear, for they were all persuaded, there was one devil too many amongst them; and so after a little pause desired the people to pardon them, they could go no further with this matter; the people also understanding the thing as it was, every man hastened to be first out of doors. The players (as I heard it) contrary to their custom spending the night in reading and prayer got them out of town the  \nnext morning (Chambers in Sofer 2009, 2)  \nNor was the apparition at Exeter an isolated incident. There is a stage legend that while playing Faustus in Dulwich, the celebrated actor and originator of the Faustus role, Edward Alleyn, was so terrified by an apparition that manifested during his monologue that he vowed that night to found a school there, which he would call ‘the College of God's Gift’. Dulwich College remains to this day, its students and faculty still uncomfortably recalling their debt to Alleyn’s nameless terror.  \nSimilarly, in his 1633 book Historiomastix, which launched a Puritan attack upon the sins of the stage (a common Puritan sentiment that would eventually see them closed during Cromwell’s Interregnum), William Prynne asks his readers to recall another famous manifestation in one of London’s inn-yard theatres, again during a production of Faustus:  \n[…] the visible apparition of the devil on the Stage at the Bel-savage  \nPlayhouse in Queen Elizabeth’s days (to the great amazement both of the  \nActors and Spectators) whiles they were there profanely playing the  \nHistory of Faustus (the truth of which I have heard from many now alive, who well remember it) there being some distracted with that fearful sight  \n(Prynne 1633) .  \nThere seems, then, to be a problem with the text of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, in particular its evocation meant to summon Lucifer and his horde; it seems to work too well. I propose we consider why that might be.  \n􀂌  \nImagine a being, said physicist James Clerk Maxwell, so small that he could consider our world's tiniest and most insignificant details—who could put his hands upon the quantum detritus, sense their ","cbCaiu2Gk963wmZF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiu2Gk963wmZF","pdf",613181,1,23,"English","en",105,"# One Devil Too Many\n## Stage legends and the failure of performance\n## Marlowe’s evocation and the problem of textual power\n## Maxwell’s demon and the analogy to language\n## Language as ordering against entropy","[{\"question\":\"文中如何解释《浮士德》咒语“召唤得太灵”这一现象？\",\"answer\":\"文中指出，马洛《浮士德》的文本似乎过于有效地实现了召唤目标，因此在舞台演出中会出现失控或可怕的偏差。作者据此提出需要追问其语言机制为何会产生强烈效果。\"},{\"question\":\"伊克斯特尔（Exeter）事件在论证中扮演什么角色？\",\"answer\":\"该事件被用作早期流传记的例子：当演员念诵咒语、从舞台暗处出现“恶魔”装扮时，一切却因“多出一个魔鬼”而走向崩坏。它支撑了作者对“语言召唤偏差”的核心问题设定。\"},{\"question\":\"麦克斯韦的“恶魔”思想实验如何与语言被类比？\",\"answer\":\"作者认为语言具有区分与分类的能力，类似麦克斯韦恶魔对微观细节的操控，从而抵抗熵与混沌、建立差异与秩序。但同样存在失误风险，使“多出来的一个恶魔”在语境中被放出。\"}]","One Devil Too Many - Understanding the Language of Magic Spells in the English Renaissance | PDF",1787575245,35,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":86,"head_meta":88,"extra_data":90,"updated_unix":28},"one-devil-too-many-understanding-the-language-of-magic-spells-in-the-english-renaissance","",{"@graph":36,"@context":85},[37,53,68],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,47,50],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",{"item":48,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":49},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":51,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":52},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/one-devil-too-many-understanding-the-language-of-magic-spells-in-the-english-renaissance/140449/",4,{"url":51,"name":13,"@type":54,"author":55,"headline":13,"publisher":57,"fileFormat":60,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":61,"datePublished":62,"encodingFormat":60,"isAccessibleForFree":63,"interactionStatistic":64},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":56},"Person",{"url":41,"name":58,"@type":59},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-09-04","2026-08-24",true,{"@type":65,"interactionType":66,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":67},"ViewAction",{"@type":69,"mainEntity":70},"FAQPage",[71,77,81],{"name":72,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":74},"文中如何解释《浮士德》咒语“召唤得太灵”这一现象？","Question",{"text":75,"@type":76},"文中指出，马洛《浮士德》的文本似乎过于有效地实现了召唤目标，因此在舞台演出中会出现失控或可怕的偏差。作者据此提出需要追问其语言机制为何会产生强烈效果。","Answer",{"name":78,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":79},"伊克斯特尔（Exeter）事件在论证中扮演什么角色？",{"text":80,"@type":76},"该事件被用作早期流传记的例子：当演员念诵咒语、从舞台暗处出现“恶魔”装扮时，一切却因“多出一个魔鬼”而走向崩坏。它支撑了作者对“语言召唤偏差”的核心问题设定。",{"name":82,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":83},"麦克斯韦的“恶魔”思想实验如何与语言被类比？",{"text":84,"@type":76},"作者认为语言具有区分与分类的能力，类似麦克斯韦恶魔对微观细节的操控，从而抵抗熵与混沌、建立差异与秩序。但同样存在失误风险，使“多出来的一个恶魔”在语境中被放出。","https://schema.org",{"og:url":51,"og:type":87,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":58,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":89,"canonical":51},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":92},[93,97,100,104,109,114,119,124,129,132,136],{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":94,"show_sort_weight":95,"slug":96},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},80,"literature",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":105,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":120,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":121,"show_sort_weight":122,"slug":123},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":130,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":131},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":133,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":134,"show_sort_weight":133,"slug":135},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":137,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":138,"show_sort_weight":105,"slug":139},19,"General","general"]