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

Shylock is My Name: A Novel : William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold
ISBN-10
0147526965
ISBN-13
9780147526960
Category
Fathers and daughters
Pages
275
Language
English
Published
2016
Author
Howard Jacobson

Description

"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, 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"--

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