Machiavellian Politics in the Jew of Malta

This study exposes the Machiavellian politics and practices of the Christians, Jews and Turks in Christopher Marlowe’s play The Jew of Malta . Christopher Marlowe is highly critical of their Machiavellian deeds by suggesting that the only motivation of these supposed religious characters is to retain their influential positions. Therefore, Marlowe, as an intellectual humanist, is calling for religious tolerance among followers of different religious denominations and condemns religious fanaticism and the use of religion to achieve personal and political ends.