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Christopher Marlowe, Lloyd Kermode

The Jew of Malta

Paperback (W. W. Norton & Company Oct. 1, 2020) , First edition

“Lloyd Kermode’s Norton Critical Edition of The Jew of Malta succeeds in making this challenging play eminently teachable by providing a carefully edited, modernized text complete with clear annotations and a judicious selection of contextual and critical materials. Particularly valuable is the way that the volume allows students to see how understandings of the play and its depiction of Jews have changed over time. Kermode’s gathering of contextual materials offers a convenient and much-needed resource for getting to grips with the challenges of ‘otherness’ both in the early modern world and in our own.” - Dympna C. Callaghan, Syracuse University

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • The 1633 quarto (Q) text―the only authoritative version--with modernized spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation, and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play.
  • Editorial matter by Lloyd Kermode.
  • Six illustrations and one map.
  • An unusually rich selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century contexts, thematically organized to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Theater and Marlowe,” “Machiavelli and Mediterranean Identities,” and “Ideas of the Jew.”
  • Twenty-seven critical interpretations spanning three centuries and including seven considerations of The Jew of Malta in performance.
  • A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format―annotated text, contexts, and criticism―helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Series
Norton Critical Editions
ISBN
0393643352 / 9780393643350
Weight
17.6 oz.

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