Complex sentence: MacLean's wife, Bertha, named the school after the character Portia in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", who disguises herself as a male lawyer and eloquently pleads her client's case in the famous "quality of mercy" speech.
Split into simpler sentences: MacLean's wife, Bertha, named the school after the character Portia in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". In the play, Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer and eloquently pleads her client's case in the famous "quality of mercy" speech.