The Jew of Malta: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Jew of Malta, credited to Christopher Marlowe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe. Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce. Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564? - 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death.The Jew of Malta (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introduces "the tragedy of a Jew." (summary by Wikipedia) Thomas Heywood: The well-known dramatist of the time has included Prologues and Epilogues both for the court and the Cock-Pit theatre "...making choice of you unto whom to devote it;" . (summary by David Lawrence)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Jew of Malta
• Author credits: Christopher Marlowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:28

Catalogue topics

• romance
• play
• fiction
• philosophy
• religion
• tragedy

Track guide

1. 1 - Introduction, Prologues and Epilogues — 5:10
2. 2 - Dramatis Personae — 2:25
3. 3 - Act 1 — 33:13
4. 4 - Act 2 — 26:58
5. 5 - Act 3 — 21:53
6. 6 - Act 4 — 29:33
7. 7 - Act 5 — 22:18

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