The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume IV: The Jew of MaltaOf English Renaissance dramatists, Christopher Marlowe arguably stands second only to Shakespeare in the minds of students, directors, and theatre-goers. Yet despite this fascination with the man and his works, until the present Oxford English Texts edition there has been no complete edition of the works that not only gives them in their original spelling - with full textual apparatus - but also supplies a detailed commentary. Marlow's Jew of Malta - a very popular play in its day, as entries in Henslowe's Diary testify - ranks as one of the most imaginative creations of Elizabethan drama, having no known antecedents for the main events of the plot, and no known counterpart for its protagonist. Here it is presented in a text derived from the 1633 Quarto, with an apparatus of emendations and a full commentary on sources, allusions, and the meaning of difficult passages. |
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... attempts to classify it : T. S. Eliot , noting the ' terribly serious , even savage comic humour ' , pronounced it a ' farce ' ; 1 and Clifford Leech asked whether it should be called ' Black Comedy or Comic Tragedy'.2 Perhaps it ...
... attempts to classify it : T. S. Eliot , noting the ' terribly serious , even savage comic humour ' , pronounced it a ' farce ' ; 1 and Clifford Leech asked whether it should be called ' Black Comedy or Comic Tragedy'.2 Perhaps it ...
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... attempted many times , But never could effect their Strategem . 3 JEW . And very wisely sayd , it may be so . 2 JEW . But there's a meeting in the Senate - house , And all the Jewes in Malta must be there . BARABAS . Umh ; all the Jewes ...
... attempted many times , But never could effect their Strategem . 3 JEW . And very wisely sayd , it may be so . 2 JEW . But there's a meeting in the Senate - house , And all the Jewes in Malta must be there . BARABAS . Umh ; all the Jewes ...
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... attempt ? BARABAS . Why so ; Then thus , thou toldst me they have turn'd my house Into a Nunnery , and some Nuns are there . ABIGALL . I did . BARABAS . Then Abigall , there must my girle Intreate the Abbasse to be entertain'd . ABIGALL ...
... attempt ? BARABAS . Why so ; Then thus , thou toldst me they have turn'd my house Into a Nunnery , and some Nuns are there . ABIGALL . I did . BARABAS . Then Abigall , there must my girle Intreate the Abbasse to be entertain'd . ABIGALL ...
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