Packet 2: Tossup 5

T.S. Eliot took dialogue from this play for the epigraph of his poem “Portrait of a Lady.” (15[1])In the prologue (15[1])to this play, (15[1])the line “there is no sin but ignorance” is spoken by the ghost of Machiavelli. (15[2]-5[1])Mathias (15[2]-5[1])and (15[1])Ludowick (15[2])duel in this play as a result of a forged letter, whose real author (15[1])responds (15[1])to (-5[1])a blackmail plot by murdering his slave (*) Ithamore. (10[1]-5[1])This (10[1])play’s (10[1])title character schemes with (10[1])his daughter Abigail (10[2])after his wealth is seized (10[1]-5[2])to pay tribute (10[1])to the Turks, (-5[1])before dying when he falls into the boiling cauldron (10[1]-5[1])he prepared for (10[1])Calymath. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])Barabas is the title character (10[3]-5[1])of what Christopher (10[1])Marlowe play (10[1])often criticised as anti-Semitic? (10[1])■END■ (10[9]0[7])

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