Shylock is My Name
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The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare).
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Series: Hogarth Shakespeare
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.
‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...
‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 04/02/2016
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ISBN: 9781448191796
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Length: 288 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original.
James Lasdun, Guardian
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Jacobson’s writing is virtuoso. He is the master of shifting tones, from the satirical to the serious. His prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in command … There's also deep and sincere soul-searching going on here
Lucasta Miller, Independent
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A brilliant conceit… A powerful reimagining and reinvention of Shakespeare’s character.
Adam Lively, The Sunday Times
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Howard Jacobson’s reworking of The Merchant of Venice is a sly success… Irascible, eloquent Shylock is a man transplanted from the play to today.
Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph
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Shylock is My Name has much to tell us about loss, identity and modern antisemitism ... Simon's debates with Shylock, snapshots of a man haranguing his literary Creator, are the heart of this book, knowing and humane
Kate Maltby, The Times
