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

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

Jacobson, Howard

Paperback

Series: Hogarth Shakespeare

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0804141347
ISBN13: 9780804141345
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Oct 11 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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