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Forgiving the Gift Chris Gaine Evelyn Lau's Runaway: Diary ofForgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self interest. The prologue reads Marlowes Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace, depicting Faustuss