Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (1596) provides another look at the social outsider in the character of Shylock as well as employing a Venetian setting.
Another of Shakespeare's plays, Much Ado About Nothing (1598), features an insidious villain and a jealous lover in a comedic rather than tragic plot.
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