Shylock Is My Name

Name: Shylock Is My Name
Brand: Hogarth / Vintage
SKU: 9780804141345-PRUSDTR-US
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The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

288 pages • 5.23 x 7.93 x 0.76 in

Approx. weight: 0.54 lb

Publication date: 11 Oct,2016

Barcode: 9780804141345 • Hogarth / Vintage

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By: Howard Jacobson | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock

Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. 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 “betrayal” of her family and heritage—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—Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock’s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson’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 antecedent—a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be “the most troubling of Shakespeare’s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.”