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The Jew of Malta

by Christopher Marlowe

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1589
Pages
110
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2 h 21 min · 7 parts

  1. 1 – Introduction, Prologues and Epilogues

    5:10

  2. 2 – Dramatis Personae

    2:25

  3. 3 – Act 1

    33:12

  4. 4 - Act 2

    26:57

  5. 5 - Act 3

    21:53

  6. 6 - Act 4

    29:33

  7. 7 - Act 5

    22:18

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Christopher Marlowe's dark tragedy of vengeance opens with Barabas, the richest merchant in Malta, stripped of his fortune when the island's governor confiscates Jewish wealth to buy off an invading Turkish fleet. Robbed of everything, Barabas answers with a campaign of poison, betrayal, and cold calculation that consumes his enemies and eventually himself. Written around 1590, the play mixes savage comedy with real menace, and its scheming antihero, aided by the equally ruthless slave Ithamore, helped shape the Elizabethan stage villain that Shakespeare later drew on for Shylock. Marlowe uses the island's tangle of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish rivalries to expose the hypocrisy on every side.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), an English poet and dramatist, was the leading tragedian of his generation before Shakespeare. Educated at Cambridge, he pioneered the use of blank verse on the popular stage and wrote Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta. He was killed in a Deptford tavern at twenty-nine.

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Book facts

First published
1589
Reading time
About 90 minutes
Pages
110
Language
English
Genre
Drama
Formats
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