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 duel in this play as a result of a forged letter, whose real author responds (15[1])to a blackmail plot by murdering his slave (*) Ithamore. This (10[1])play’s title character schemes with his daughter Abigail (10[1])after his wealth is seized to pay tribute to the Turks, before dying when he falls into the boiling cauldron (10[1]-5[1])he prepared for Calymath. For 10 points, Barabas is the title character of what Christopher Marlowe play often criticised as anti-Semitic? ■END■

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