by Christopher Marlowe · Bloomsbury Publishing plc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713666700
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«The Jew of Malta» is the play by Christopher Marlowe, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The play, described as a tragic farce, revolves around Barabas, a wealthy Jewish merchant of Malta whose machinations clash with Christian power. Marlowe uses violence and irony to denounce the antisemitism, hypocrisy, and xenophobia of Elizabethan England, without exempting any side from criticism.
The volume belongs to the New Mermaids series, in a second revised edition, edited by James R. Siemon.
Recommended for students of English literature and readers interested in Elizabethan theatre and Marlowe's work.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.
