castle; instead of finding a treasure, he witnesses a macabre spiritual procession that reveals his fate, which is to be defeated by the Moors and to lose his Christian kingdom to the forces of Islam. Together, Julianus and Muly Mumen defeat Roderick; but the Moorish king quickly betrays his new ally, blinding Julianus and cutting out Jacinta's tongue. Margaretta meets Dionisa escorting Antonio, who has been wounded in the battle. He dies of his wounds. Dionisa calls Margaretta "a lusty stout virago," and suggests they marry each other and "beget chimeras." Instead, the two women stab themselves over Antonio's body. Muly Mumen offers the blinded Julianus a chance for revenge, arming the general and letting him attack his tormentor. But his ploy is a cruel joke, in which Julianus stabs his own daughter. She dies in his arms, and he dies of grief. Muly Mumen ends the play by setting off to pursue the fleeing Roderick and consolidate his conquest of the kingdom. Racism Rowley consistently characterizes the Moors as "black," and portrays them as stereotypical villains, bloodthirsty and treacherous. In this he reflects the typical attitudes of his time, as expressed in plays like Lust's Dominion, Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus among other works that include Moors and North African Muslims. Rowley modifies the stereotype somewhat in his portrayal of Margaretta's serving maid Fydella, a young Moorish woman who is courageous and fiercely devoted to her mistress. Notes References Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. New York, Macmillan, 2000. Bentley, G. E. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. 7 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1941–68. Daileader, Celia R. Racism, Misogyny, and the "Othello" Myth. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Dominik, Mark. William Shakespeare and "The Birth of Merlin". Beaverton, OR, Alioth Press, 1991. Gosse, Edmund. The Jacobean Poets. London, J. Murray, 1894. Schelling, Felix Emmanuel. English Drama. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1914. Charles Wharton Stork, "All's Lost by Lust, a Tragedy by William Rowley, 1633"[Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1905, advisor Felix Emanuel Schelling] English Renaissance plays 1610s plays Plays by William Rowley