# Ferneze — The Jew of Malta character guide

> Ferneze in The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Ferneze Soft, Ferneze Dead, Ferneze Wonder, Ferneze Thou, Ferneze Captain, Ferneze O Lodowick, Ferneze Thine, Wretched Ferneze

**First appearance:** 0005-scene-ii

## Who they are

The Christian Governor of Malta, who seizes Barabas's wealth and later schemes against him.

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