Excerpt from The Bloody Jest: A Drama in Four Acts

The source of the plot is to be found in Gregorio Leti's "Life of Sixtus V," where Seche - in this play, Antonio-claims a pound of flesh from a Roman Jew, named Samson Cenada, as the result of a wager. This is elaborated in Wolf Pascheles' "Sippurim," a German collection of Jewish tales, part IV, pp. 202-210, and was thence rendered into English by Claud Field in his "Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages." Pascheles naively remarks: "Dieser Sage entnahm England's grosses Dichter Shakespeare den Stoff zu seinem 'Kaufmann von Venedig'."

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