Act three of this work opens with a courtesan bemoaning her current business before she is given a sack of silver by the thieving Pilia-Borza.
Act three of this work opens with a courtesan bemoaning her current business before she is given a sack of silver by the thieving Pilia-Borza. It ends "let due praise be neither to fate nor fortune, but to heaven," as spoken by Ferneze to Calymath. Its prologue sees the ghost of Machiavael extol the virtues of the title character, who first appears surrounded by heaps of gold. Its protagonist poisons an entire nunnery after his daughter Abigail joins it and purchases the Christian-hating slave Ithamore while at a market. For 10 points, name this play by Christopher Marlowe about the scheming Barabas, which may have inspired Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Act three of this work opens with a courtesan bemoaning her current business before she is given a sack of silver by the thieving Pilia-Borza.
The Jew of Malta