Shylock of Venice: A Verse Play in Three Acts

Shylock of Venice is a sequel to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. While the trial scene in Shakespeare’s play is crude, unrealistic and unbelievable, designed for the Christian riffraff, the language of the play is very much poetic, with classical and biblical allusions, appreciable only by the educated. In Shylock of Venice, Portia and her male and female companions are exposed as legal impostors and day-dreamers whose one year romantic marriages have collapsed. All are toppled from t...