The Jew of Malta
(2022)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Falcon Press LLC, 2022
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9798350033458 MWT15462438, 8350033452 15462438
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Christopher Marlowe wrote The Jew of Malta at the height of his career, and it remained popular until England's theaters were closed by Parliament in 1642. Many have critiqued it for its portrayal of Elizabethan antisemitism, but others argue that Marlowe criticizes Judaism, Islam, and Christianity equally for their hypocrisy. This antisemitism debate continues on to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which was written about ten years later and which some consider to be directly influenced by The Jew of Malta
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