Round 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 to this play, the line “there is no sin but ignorance” is spoken by the ghost of Machiavelli. (15[1]-5[1])Mathias (15[1]-5[1])and (15[1])Ludowick duel in this play as a result of a forged letter, whose real author responds to a blackmail plot by murdering his slave (*) Ithamore. This play’s title character schemes with his daughter Abigail after his wealth is seized to pay tribute (10[1])to the Turks, before dying when he falls into the boiling cauldron he prepared for Calymath. For 10 points, Barabas is the title character (10[1])of what Christopher Marlowe play often criticised as anti-Semitic? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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