Life from city to village

By Gibbsangie

A pound to pound your flesh

Chantler's Shakespeare Challenge - Shylock

Shylock was a bit of a controversial figure, certainly to the modern view. The moneylender who gave rise to the phrase, "pound of flesh".

So here is my eldest, playing Shylock, as a modern doorstep lender, offering a pound - just as long as you don't notice the threat from the boxing glove if you don't give it back, with exorbitant interest, on time.

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