It is fitting that the Fool becomes the protagonist of Christopher Moore's Shakespeare-based novels, because Moore's writing has a wit, inventiveness and charm worthy of the Bard's greatest comedy characters. Following on from the novel Fool, where we first meet the jester Pocket, his apprentice Drool and monkey Jeff, against the backdrop of King Lear, comes The Serpent of Venice. This book sees our hero Pocket embroiled in a hilarious tale of revenge, within a shared world of Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. The result is one of the most wildly imaginative novels I have read in some time.

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