A performance of the "summer night" scene from The Merchant of Venice is given, and then the Queen is sung lovingly to sleep. The Merchant of Venice scene is anachronistic, since Shakespeare was a young boy in 1575, but Chorley notes in his preface that Scott had also anachronistically used Shakespeare material. Chorley's effort was ridiculed as "trivial".
A performance of "summer night" from The Merchant of Venice is presented, followed by the Queen being sung to sleep. The Merchant of Venice scene is anachronistic because Shakespeare was a young boy in 1575, but Chorley notes that Scott had also used Shakespeare material anachronistically. Chorley's work was ridiculed as "trivial".