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Appropriate deaths - what have we missed?BarabasIn Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, the murderously ingenious Barabas has prepared a booby-trap for Calymath, but Ferneze finds out about it, cuts the cord at the right moment, and Barabas falls into the cauldron he has placed in a pit. "But now begins the extremity of heat / To pinch me with intolerable pangs: / Die, life! fly, soul! tongue, curse thy fill, and …
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