Performance
The first recorded performance was in 1592. It was acted by Lord Strange's Men seventeen times between
Feb. 26, 1592 and Feb. 1, 1593 and was performed by Sussex's Men on Feb. 4, 1594, and by a combination
of Sussex's and Queen Elizabeth's Men on the 3rd and 8 April, 1594. More than a dozen performances by
the Admiral's Men occurred between May 1594 and June 1596.
The Jew of Malta was a success in its first recorded performance at the Rose theatre in early 1592,
when Edward Alleyn played the lead role. The play remained popular for the next fifty years, until England's
theatres were closed in 1642.
There have been a number of modern productions. Barabas was been played by Alun Armstrong at
the Royal Shakespeare Company and by Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre. Jeff Dailey directed the play
for The Marlowe Project in New York City in November, 1999. F. Murray Abraham performed as both
Shylock in
The Merchant of Venice
and
Barabas
in
The Jew of Malta
at the “Theatre for a New Audience” in
February and March 2007.
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