The significant difference between Marlowe and the mystery plays is actually that Marlowe forces his audience to see the unsettling ineffaceability of the marginal. |
Thus the Law, even in its ineffaceability, is retraced to a divine act of will and provided with the task of the recognition of sin and the provocation of transgression. |
Call it much or call it little, the ineffaceability of this deep stain of experience, it is the interest of old places and the bribe to the brooding analyst. |