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[LOPEZ CONSPIRACY] [ELIZABETH I, Queen of England. CECIL, Sir WILLIAM]. A true report of sundry horrible conspiracies of late time detected to have (by barbarous murders) taken away the life of the Queenes most excellent maiestie. London: by Charles Yetswiert, 1594. 4to, 29 pp., modern vellum, title-leaf and A2 with slight loss at lower blank margin restored, title soiled. One of two issues dated 1594 (the other with "November" above the imprint and with 29 pp.). STC 7603.5
Roderigo Lopez has long been considered as a model for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He was born in Portugal and educated in Spain, before settling in England and becoming physician to Queen Elizabeth I from 1586 to 1594, when he was accused of accepting a bribe to poison her. "Although titularly a Christian, his Jewish sympathies were notorious...he was...executed to the accompaniment of a minor anti-Jewish storm." (Roth, Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, Jerusalem, 1958, p. 1223).
Roderigo Lopez has long been considered as a model for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He was born in Portugal and educated in Spain, before settling in England and becoming physician to Queen Elizabeth I from 1586 to 1594, when he was accused of accepting a bribe to poison her. "Although titularly a Christian, his Jewish sympathies were notorious...he was...executed to the accompaniment of a minor anti-Jewish storm." (Roth, Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, Jerusalem, 1958, p. 1223).