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Help with elizabethan plays!

It's not surprising that Shakespeare chose Venice as the setting of a story filled with passion, jealousy, and sexual tension. For the Elizabethans, the Italians were wicked, murderous, and of loose morals. When playwrights of the day wanted to portray wickedness, they often created Italian characters causing problems in England, or set the plays in Italy.

Example of this apart from Othello?
Thank you!

Reply 1

DJKL

Volpone, Ben Jonson, but as Wiki has it as 1606 it is not actually Elizabethan.

Reply 2

DJKL

Another, The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster, but again it is slightly later in date, circa 1626.

Reply 3

Altruistic1

The Tempest features Italian characters, though it's not what you're looking for.

You'll probably find some by searching for plays based on Machiavelli.