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Marlowe, Christopher; Van Fossen, Richard W.
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press (edition ), 1992
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- Title
- The Jew of Malta (Regents Renaissance Drama Series)
- Author
- Marlowe, Christopher; Van Fossen, Richard W.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press (edition )
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803252706
- ISBN 13
- 9780803252707
The title figure of the play is Barabas, grown wealthy by successful overseas trade. Depicted as the personification of Machiavellian ideas (as Machiavelli was understood in Elizabethan England), Barabas feels loyalty solely to his daughter and himself. His wealth makes him vulnerable to more powerful men. Threatened by the arbitrary rule of princes, he attempts to contend with them as best he can.
The ensuing plots and counterplots present a spectacle of cunning, in which one machination inspires or justifies another. As an example of dramaturgy and as a record of England's expanding attention to European power politics, the play is rivaled only by Shakespeare's best.
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