Overview
Character Name
Jessica
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
Venice, 16th century
Analysis
Beautiful Jessica has always been a loving and dutiful daughter to her father, Shylock, but when she falls in love with Lorenzo, she steals money from her father’s house, flees in the middle of the night and elopes with him. Lorenzo describes his bride as “wise,” “fair”,
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