• Dr.Akram Shalghin

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Barabas, the central figure in Marlowe’s play, is presented as embodying
Machiavellian political thought and characteristics but in a distorted way. The animosity with which Machiavellian thought was met in Elizabethan England found its way in Marlowe’s play. The play does not only present Barabas’s Machiavellism in his clash with Malta, but it, also, goes further to ascribe the deceptive, murderous attributes to this Machiavellism. The choice of the figure of Bararbas is made purely on the grounds of his religious affiliation. 

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