This play's prologue contains the declaration "I count religion but a childish toy / and hold there is not sin but ignorance", spoken by Machiavel. The title character uses his daughter, whose "sinful soul hath paced too long
This play's prologue contains the declaration "I count religion but a childish toy / and hold there is not sin but ignorance", spoken by Machiavel. The title character uses his daughter, whose "sinful soul hath paced too long the fatal labyrinth of misbelief," to turn Lodowick and Mathias against each other. This play's title character conspires with his Turkish slave Ithamore to poison nuns, including his own daughter Abigail, and assists the Turkish invasion of an island before ultimately falling into his own boiling cauldron. For 10 points, name this play whose title character is the scheming Barabas, written by Christopher Marlowe.
This play's prologue contains the declaration "I count religion but a childish toy / and hold there is not sin but ignorance", spoken by Machiavel.
The Jew of Malta 