The Shakespeare Lebowski

The term grimoire commonly serves as an alternative name for a spell book or tome of magical knowledge in  fantasy fiction  and   role-playing games . The most famous fictional grimoire is the  Necronomicon , a creation of  H. P. Lovecraft The ancient  Jewish  people were often viewed as being knowledgeable in magic, which, according to legend, they had learned from  Moses , who had learned it in Egypt.  Among many ancient writers, Moses was seen as an Egyptian rather than a Jew.  Two manuscripts likely dating to the 4th century, both of which purport to be the legendary eighth Book of Moses (the first five being the initial books in the Biblical  Old Testament ), present him as a  polytheist  who explained how to conjure gods and subdue demons. A  grimoire  ( / ɡ r ɪ m ˈ w ɑːr /   grim- WAHR ) (also known as a " book of spells ", " magic book ", or a " spellbook ") is a  textbook  of  m...

[Nice Tie Lloyd!]   Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge, or Actor's Tragedy  published in 1632 is a critique of professional theatre and actors, written by the  Puritan  author and controversialist  William Prynne . Histriomastix   represents the culmination of the Puritan attack on the   English Renaissance theatre   and celebrations such as   Christmas , as noted in the following: "Our Christmas lords of misrule, together with dancing, masks,   mummeries , state players, and such other Christmas disorders, now in use with Christians, were derived from these Roman   Saturnalia   and   Bacchanalian   festivals, which should cause all pious Christians eternally to abominate them." Running to over a thousand pages, and with a main title of 43 lines,  Histriomastix  marshals a multitude of ancient and medieval authorities against the "sin" of dramatic performance.  The book condemns most aspects of dramati...

              Faustus  begins to waver in his conviction to sell his soul. The good angel tells him to abandon his plan and “think of heaven, and heavenly things,” but he dismisses the good angel’s words, saying that God does not love him ( 5 . 20 ).  The good and evil angels make another appearance, with the good one again urging Faustus to think of heaven, but the evil angel convinces him that the wealth he can gain through his deal with the devil is worth the cost.  Faustus then calls back  Mephastophilis , who tells him that Lucifer has accepted his offer of his soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service.  Faustus asks Mephastophilis why Lucifer wants his soul, and Mephastophilis tells him that Lucifer seeks to enlarge his kingdom and make humans suffer even as he suffers. https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doctorfaustus/section4/   [above taken from linked site -for a full 'Precis' of the C. Marlowe Play- ] It is i...