Good Girl, Bad Girl: The Role of Abigail and Jessica in <em>The Jew of Malta</em> and <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>
In The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice, both Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare question anti-Semitism, Christian presumption, and socially constructed gender roles. Often compared, the two plays have obvious similarities: both plots center on rich, Jewish protagonists---Barabas in...
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Scholar Commons
2007
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/629 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1628&context=etd |