Antonio's Revenge  Antonio's Revenge is a late Elizabethan play written by  John Marston and performed by the Children of Paul's. It is a sequel to Marston's comic play "Antonio and Mellida," and it chronicles the conflict and violence between Piero Sforza, the Duke of Venice, and Antonio, who is determined to take revenge against Piero for the death of his father and the slander of his fiancée (Piero's daughter Mellida, to whom he is bethrothed at the end of "Antonio and Mellida"). While it has much in common with other revenge tragedies (particularly Shakespeare's "Hamlet")"," it is sometimes read as a hyperbolic parody of the genre. Act I: Piero reveals that he has poisoned his former rival, Andrugio, after pretending to reconcile with him and betrothing his daughter Mellida to Andrugio's son Antonio. Maria, Andrugio's wife, returns to Venice to see her son's wedding solemnized. Antonio recounts a dream in which his father's ghost clamors for revenge. He and his mother are reunited moments before the body of Feliche is revealed in Mellida's window. Piero confesses to the murder, claiming to have caught Feliche and Mellida in bed together. Strotzo enters, announcing that Andrugio is dead. Antonio and Maria depart in grief, while Alberto and Pandulpho remain, the latter promising not to succumb to passion. Act II: Piero gives orders for Mellida to be imprisoned in the castle vault, telling Pandulpho he means to execute her. He then attempts to persuade Pandulpho that Antontio is responsible for Andrugio's death and begs his assistance to bring him to justice. Pandulpho refuses. Antonio and Mellida converse through a vent, Antonio affirming his belief in her innocence when she informs him of her death sentence. Piero attempts to woo Maria but is rebuffed. He then hatches a plot with Strotzo, who agrees to testify that Antonio bribed him to slander Mellida and kill Andrugio. Piero promises to pardon him for his supposed crimes on account of the remorse he will feign. Act III: Antonio visits his father's tomb and encounters Andrugio's ghost, who tells him that he was poisoned by Piero, whom Maria has consented to marry. At the ghost's urging, Antonio murders Piero's young son Julio.