Narrative economy of enchanted castles
No, this is not really HP-related, but it is related to magical things in the renaissance, and to fiction about such things, and it is (i.a.) about a plot were a castle mentioned in the first part is raided in a later part (yes, you might think of Hogwarts, PS and HBP …), and, well, it is fun:
The entry "All's Lost by Lust" in Blogging the renaissance has amongst its comments the following:
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff to say about this play. I tried to keep it to just pure description of the plot, but ... well, it's bonkers. I should perhaps have said that the enchanted castle thing actually comes up right in the first scene, according to that principle of narrative economy whereby an enchanted castle mentioned in Act One has to be raided by Act Five. I'm wondering whether that weird take on the question of crown finances might have something to do with the publication of this play in 1633, 14 years or so after it was probably first on the stage.
(the bolding is mine, the comment is by some Inkhorn)
The entry "All's Lost by Lust" in Blogging the renaissance has amongst its comments the following:
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff to say about this play. I tried to keep it to just pure description of the plot, but ... well, it's bonkers. I should perhaps have said that the enchanted castle thing actually comes up right in the first scene, according to that principle of narrative economy whereby an enchanted castle mentioned in Act One has to be raided by Act Five. I'm wondering whether that weird take on the question of crown finances might have something to do with the publication of this play in 1633, 14 years or so after it was probably first on the stage.
(the bolding is mine, the comment is by some Inkhorn)