Premium Content The Connection Between Religion and Corruption in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus
By Mary Kathryn Cornwell - May 01, 2004
"Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion" (I, ii, 279-280)
Religion, as Barabas describes in this quotation from The Jew of Malta, acts as a measure in defending one's actions as moral or just. Christopher Marlowe presents this use of religion in Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta. The protagonists in both plays believe in an idea about the…
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