Word: vengefullness
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In highlighting the plays ribaldry and underplaying Barabas' vengeful character, Schmidt chose the proper touch, for The Jew of Malta was quite distinctly written for an Elizabethan audience. When Marlowe so immediately linked Barabas with Machiavelli, he captured both the notoriety of The Prince and the legend of the Jew...
As mournful bells toll in the background, the long funeral procession of Capuchin friars marches slowly along the battlements. The huge corpse on the leading bier seems to exude dark passion even in death. The gloom lifts as the second bier passes, revealing a woman whose beauty shows through her...
"On this rock you shall build your church." On this rocky soil some dissatisfied Englishmen built a new land. "We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people upon us." Soon after clearing the land they founded a college, on a...
Delmar Leighton, Master of Dudley House, said yesterday that certain people claim that Stone wrote the play "as a malicious vendetta." Leighton emphasized that in canceling the play he did not pass judgment on the charge of vengeful intent. "I merely decided the issue was too hot to handle," he...
Terence Stamp, as Billy Budd, is authentically simple. When he prefaces his hanging with the slightly reminiscent cry, "God bless Captain Vere," he does not portray Christ; he is a touching, naive sailor unable to understand the evil around him. He seems insanely stupid, yet real, when he fails to...