before the Court;Phoenix/Cockpit;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
2 Fry.
Words
180
Characters
892
Typicality
0.40 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06991
BritDrama no.
828
Cluster
Cluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
I, and of a moving spirit too, brother; but come, Let us entreat she may be entertained. The Abbasse sent for me to be con est: O what a sad confession will there be? What, all dead save only Abigall ? O he is gone to see the other Nuns. What then? Yes, what of them? So, say how was their end? O monstrous villainy: Know that Confession must not be revealed, The Canon Law forbids it, and the Priest That makes it known, being degraded first, Shall e condemned, and then sent to the fire, I, and a Virgin too, that grieves me most: But I must to the Jew and exclaim on him, And make him stand in fear of me. First help to bury this, then go with me And help me to exclaim against the Jew. A thing that makes me tremble to unfold. No, but a worse thing: 'twas told me in shr ft, Thou knowest it's death and if it be revealed. Come let's away. Exeunt. Stay wicked Jew, repent, I say, and stay.
Plot summary
Plot — The Jew of Malta
For ten years, Malta has failed to pay tribute to the Turks; now Séliml(@alymath comes to collect the arrears, but grants Bémeze, the Governor, a month to find the money. Ferneze requires the island’s Jews to contribute half their assets towards the sum, on pain of forcible conversion; but Bafabas, a wealthy merchant with trading links all over the east, refuses either to pay or to become a Christian. His entire estate is seized and his house converted to a nunnery. Unbeknown to the authorities, there is a cache of money and jewels hidden in the house; Barabas has his daughter, Abigail, become a nun in order to get access to it. After retrieving the gold, she leaves the convent, and Barabas buys a new house. The Spanish Vice-Admiral, Martin(§@elgposcs} arrives in Malta after routing the Turkish navy. He is granted permission to sell his prisoners as slaves on the island, even though this will be provocative to the Turks; Ferneze decides to keep the gold he levied to pay the tribute, and count on Spanish aid in the war that will follow. Barabas visits the slave market and buys [fiamiore; they swap stories about their exploits in villainy. A Turkish pasha comes to collect the tribute money, but Ferneze refuses to pay. War looms. Mathias and WEdGwiek both love Abigail. Barabas asks her to encourage Lodowick, even though she prefers Mathias; he doesn’t want her to marry either, but particularly wants to destroy Lodowick to get revenge on Ferneze, his father. He tells Mathias of Lodowick’s interest, and forges a challenge from Lodowick. The two young men fight and kill one another. When Abigail finds out what has happened, she rejoins the nunnery. Barabas adopts Ithamore as his heir and sends the nuns an anonymous gift of poisoned rice. They all die; Abigail’s last act is to confess to Friar Barnardine her 1589 father’s part.in the deaths of Mathias and Lodowick. Barmardine and Friarjacom try to exploit the power this knowledge gives them over Barabas, without explicitly revealing it (which is forbidden under canon law). Barabas sets enmity between them by pretending he wishes to join a religious order and give that order his money; the two friars vie with one another to offer him an easier life, and he promises himself to both. He and Ithamore strangle Barnardine with his own girdle and stand up the body as if alive; it falls down when Jacomo strikes it, and he is hanged for the murder. With fewer visitors coming to Malta, there has been a slackening in trade…