The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Regarded as a classic of Renaissance drama, The Jew of Malta, written around 1589–90, is Christopher Marlowe’s darkly compelling tragedy set against the backdrop of religious and political conflict in Mediterranean Malta Barabas, a wealthy Jewish merchant, loses everything when Christian authorities seize his wealth to pay tribute. His ensuing vengeance leads to deception, poisoning, murder—including that of his own daughter—and a violent downfall in a cauldron of his own design