%0 Journal Article %A Thomas Willard %D 2022 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J Mediaevistik %@ 2199-806X %N 1 %V 32 %T Richard Mackenney, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250–c. 1650. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019, xiii, 471. %R 10.3726/med.2019.01.167 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1272039 %X Shakespeare is well known to have set two of his plays in and around Venice: