These are nowadays for instance seen as a sarcasm of Christians & Christian views in Judaism of its period. Elizabethan England saw a play as a demonization of the Jewish faith. A Jew Of Malta is considered to use at times been the major influence of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Summary
A play tells a story of the Jewish merchandiser, Barabas & his quest after retaliation on the governor of Malta, Ferneze, for the seizeing of his assets. a play besides contains a prologue where the writer Machiavelli, much despised by Elizabethan England, introduces 'the tragedy of a Jew'.