This is a satirical spoof based on Shakespeare's Othello: The Moor of Venice, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear; and Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. I've never read any of the Shakespeare, and although I think I read the Edgar Allen Poe story it has been a long time, so I only got the basic connection and missed the nuances. So basically, I didn't understand or enjoy the story as a stand-alone but I assume that if I knew the stories it was spoofing I would have enjoyed it more. And of course the Shylock the Jew stuff, even though spoofed in this book, made me unhappy to some extent. I might be the only reader who found it only halfway funny and was yawning and checking my watch, figuratively. It is funny if you find a lot of "wanking", "big swinging dongs" and "fuckin' French" funny. OK, I did giggle a few times.

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Requested by perryfran from the lit/fic VBB.

Requested by perryfran from the lit/fic VBB. It is on the way.

Thanks for this selection from the Lit VBB. I've read several Moore books and usually enjoy them. Hope to get to this one soonish along with some others I have on my TBR shelf.