The Jew of Malta

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The 1633 quarto (Q) text?the only authoritative version?with modernized spelling and detailed explanatory annotations.

• An unusually rich selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth century contexts, thematically organized to promote classroom discussion. Topics include ?Theater and Marlowe,? ?Machiavelli and Mediterranean Identities,? and ?Ideas of the Jew.?

• Twenty-eight critical interpretations spanning three centuries, including several considerations of The Jew of Malta in performance and new scholarly perspectives on text and culture.

• Editorial prefaces and a Textual Notes section.

• Six illustrations and one map.

• A chronology and a selected bibliography.

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About the Series

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LLOYD EDWARD KERMODE is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He edited Three Renaissance Usury Plays for the Revels Companion series (2009) and coedited Tudor Drama before Shakespeare (2004) and the collection “Space and Place in Early Modern Drama” for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013). He is the author of Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (2009), and of a number of essays on cultural identity in literature and on the theory and experience of space in early modern England.

"Lloyd Kermode's Norton Critical Edition of The Jew of Malta succeeds in making this challenging play eminently teachable by providing a carefully edited, modernized text complete with clear annotations and a judicious selection of contextual and critical materials. Particularly valuable is the way that the volume allows students to see how understandings of the play and its depiction of Jews have changed over time. Kermode's gathering of contextual materials offers a convenient and much-needed resource for getting to grips with the challenges of 'otherness' both in the early modern world and in our own." - Dympna C. Callaghan, Syracuse University

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