Thomas Heywood wrote two sets of prologues and epilogues for this play, one for the "Cock-Pit" and one for the Court.
The last lines in this play describe how two characters shall wait or "sooner shall they drink the world dry" and also "gives praise" neither to Fate or Fortune "but to Heaven." Thomas Heywood wrote two sets of prologues and epilogues for this play, one for the "Cock-Pit" and one for the Court. In the fourth act of this play, one priest uses his staff to strike down the corpse of another priest after proclaiming "this is the Happy Hour, I shall convert an infidel." At a market place, one character in this play describes his time killing pilgrims and slitting throats during Charles V's campaign against the Schmalkaldic League. This play's title character's motives are explained in the first act by the ghost Machiavael, as his actions include using some rice to poison an entire nunnery and having his slave Ithamore murdered after his daughter Abigail dies. For 10 points, name this play about Barrabas, a work of Christopher Marlowe.
The last lines in this play describe how two characters shall wait or "sooner shall they drink the world dry" and also "gives praise" neither to Fate or Fortune "but to Heaven."
The Jew of Malta