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The Merchant of Venice
play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice
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moon of Uranus

Shylock
Shylock ( ; spelled Shylocke in the First Folio) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice ( 1600). A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal villain. His defeat and forced conversion to Christianity form the climax of the story.

The Jew of Malta
play by Christopher Marlowe
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heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice