The Jew of Malta Resources
Websites
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What? Of course Marlowe has his own society. This is a particularly nice one, complete with critical essays and related books.
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Another really nifty website with lots of information about Marlowe's life and work that also includes a section for essays written on Marlowe stuff and links to the complete texts of his works.
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The Gutenberg Project has an e-text, but you'll probably still want to check out an edition with footnotes.
Movie or TV Production
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Douglas Morse's 2012 movie version of the play.
Articles and Interviews
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Douglas Morse talks about his film production of The Jew of Malta.
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The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice are frequently paired productions; here's a New York Times review a 2007 production. (It pans the director's attempt to make Barabas a man, instead of a monster.)
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Peter Zadek's 2009 production is a good example of how people have gone in interesting directions with the staging of this play to show how The Jew of Malta confronts modern problems.
Video
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See a clip featuring Barabas's "How Bad Am I? Real Bad" speech, from Douglas Morse's production
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Here's the trailer for Morse's production.Yeah, it's a little low-budget, but it does the trick.
Audio
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Nifty recording of the entire play; we've linked directly to the first Act. Machiavel starts at about :22.
Images
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A portrait of the man himself, Christopher Marlowe. We're mostly wondering what conditioner he uses.
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The 1633 quarto's title page.
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To get an idea of what the characters might look like, here are some costume design sketches that were made for a 1991 production.
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Here's one of Matteo Perez d'Alecci's 16th century frescos depicting the siege. What you should be taking note of here: Turks. Many, many Turks.