...Marlowe's evident delight in the outrageous conduct of a monster : As for myself, I walk abroad a nights And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells, which suggests Marlowe's grotesque, teeth-dripping interest in the fascination of fear. Our sympathy...

...story include unprovoked murders (though of a secret kind) and more elaborate stratagems; beginning As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick...under walls; Sometimes I go about and poison wells; (The Jew of Malta, 11,1^,172-4) and ending with the macabre image of a man hanging himself for grief,...

...name by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593): As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells. . . . It was seriously believed that Jews were poisoning water in the cities. From what foul ingredients...

...extraordinary speech in which Barabas regales his servant Ithamore with details of his criminal career: As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights And kill sick...under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells . . . The unexpected touch of "groaning under walls," the clinching half-rhyme of "walls" and "wells"...

...of Malta: 'I learned in Florence how to kiss my hand . . .' (II.iii.23); 'I walk abroad o' nights, / And kill sick people groaning under walls; / Sometimes I go about and poison wells. . .' (11.iu.176-178); 'And in the nighttime secretly would I steal / To travellers' chambers, and there...

...The experience of cruelty is first and foremost given in words: As for myself, I walk abroad o'nights And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells; (Il.iii. 11.180-182) I hope to see the governor a slave, And, rowing in a galley, whipt to death. (Vu...

...The experience of cruelty is first and foremost given in words: As for myself, I walk abroad o'nights And kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells; (Il.iii. 11.180-182) I hope to see the governor a slave, And, rowing in a galley, whipt to death. (Vu...

...speech, to sum up all his own past crimes, by describing how he has been accustomed to employ his time. As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick...under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells, &c. Instead of omitting this speech altogether in the acted play, Barabas is made (aside) to feign...

...Ithamore, the two men compete in telling anecdotes of their clever and sensational misdeeds: Barabas: As for myself, I walk abroad anights, And kill sick...under walls. Sometimes I go about and poison wells . . . But tell me now, how hast thou spent thy time? Ithamore: Faith, master. In setting Christian...

...ocasionaron innumerables matanzas en la historia europea aparecen magnificadas en el verso de Marlowe: As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick...lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in my gullery. See 'em go pinion'd along by my door. Being young, I studied physic, and began To practice...