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From Jew to nun: Abigail in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.(Christopher Marlowe)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20070322
Author:Beskins, Anna
In The Jew of Malta, (1) Christopher Marlowe questions anti-Semitism, Christian presumption, and socially constructed gender roles. The play centers on a rich, Jewish protagonist, Barabas, and his daughter, Abigail. Whereas Barabas is vilified and destroyed by a merciless Gentile society, Abigail, who is in love with a Gentile, is appropriated into the Christian community. Abigail's positive characteristics separate her from her father and stereotypical "Jewishness." In performance, the contrast was striking; John Gross argues that the red wig and fake nose that Barabas, and ...
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