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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice, Retold
By (author) Howard Jacobson
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. 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... Howard Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world. ‘Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original’ Guardian ‘Jacobson’s 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’ Independent SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.
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Publisher | Vintage Publishing
Published date | 5 Mar 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 304
Dimensions | 197 x 128 x 21mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 206g
ISBN | 978-1-7848-7886-3
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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