Round 2: Tossup 5

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

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