Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of

Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeareâ€™s most unforgettable characters: Shylock
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Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of â€œThe Merchant of Venice,â€ Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. Â With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge.

While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's â€œbetrayalâ€ of her family and heritage â€“ as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field â€“ Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rageÂ against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylockâ€™s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobsonâ€™s insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedentâ€”a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be â€œthe most troubling of Shakespeareâ€™s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Hogarth
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-02-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Hogarth
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-02-09
Format	Kindle eBook

Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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