ENGL2060 Lecture 6: Week 7 Lecture
ENGL2060 Week 7 Lecture – The Jew of Malta
In this essay, I will argue that…
Intro:
• Race and religion
• Islam and anti-semetic – use the term anti-Jewish
• Genre – comedy or a tragedy
• Marlow allowed to be more different and give a more critical viewpoint
• Critical of hypocrisy
• No really good character, apart from Abigale
• No religion comes off well
• In the middle of for and against
• Villainy of the Jew and the Turk
Jew:
• Catalyst for the plot
• Bravos – Maceavelli character
Play:
• 1589-90
• First performed at the Rose Theatre
• Revenge-tragedy (starts with The Spanish Tragedie)
• Jews are everything that Christian are not
Preedy:
• Jew stands in the for resistance to the established church
• Is the ‘religious other’
• People that don’t conform to the church
• Church of England, catholic recusants, puritans
• 177 – religious identities ‘remain fluid and flexible’
• Cultural relevance
Prologue:
• Machevill
• Image of the time
1.2:
• Pressure on the Jews and their wealth
• Not the judgement of heaven, but Ferneze spending the money
• Using rhetoric to blame others for his problems
• Jews remain strangers simply because they are not Christian
• Racial component to identity
