Antonio and Mellida is a late Elizabethan play written by the satirist John Marston, usually dated to c. 1599, and forms the first part of a two part series with 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.