[Year of first publication] 1589 or 1590 [Character(s)] Barabas, Abigail [Work] The Jew of Malta [Creator] Christopher Marlowe [Country of publication] England [Details] For Elizabethans, the character of the Jew, as presented in Barabas, is "an embodiment of all they loathe and fear, all that appears stubbornly, irreducibly different."[12] The play became extremely popular,[13] and Barabas has become a culturally iconic anti-Semitic representation of "avarice, egotism, duplicity and murderous cunning."[12] Abigail, Barabas' beautiful daughter, converts to Christianity when she finds her father has duped her beloved into a fatal duel, and then becomes a nun to escape the sexual advances of a Friar. Barabas poisons her along with the rest of the nuns.[14] [Media] 
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