The Bloody Jest

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Excerpt from The Bloody Jest: A Drama in Four ActsThe source of the plot is to be found in Gre gorio Leti's Life of Sixtus V, where Seche - ln this play, Antonio - claims a pound of ¿esh from a Roman Jew, named Samson Cenada, as the te sult 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 Eng land's grosses Dichter Shakespeare den Stoff zu.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.