Review | Shylock is My Name, Howard Jacobson Posted on 6 April 2016 by Jaclyn In this modern update to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , Howard Jacobson finally gives Shylock … Shylock Is My Name The Merchant of Venice Retold (Book) : Jacobson, Howard : The second book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series heralds the full-on 2016 anniversary celebration of Shakespeare: Man Booker Prize winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life retells the powerful, controversial story of Shylock. ( ) Shylock Is My Name is my third experience with the Hogarth Shakespeare series and I … Shylock Is My Name reminds me very much, in fact, of Jacobson’s 2010 Man Booker Prize winner The Finkler Question, another book about recreating the Jewish identity in the modern world. Shylock Is My Name is The Merchant of Venice but it's the play in a funhouse mirror, simultaneously recognizable and distorted. On the 500 th Anniversary of the Venice Ghetto, acclaimed authors Stephen Greenblatt and Howard Jacobson talk about the legacy of its most famous resident—Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard … Jacobson proves that one can work unchained from one’s source material and create something unique while remaining true its original themes. Shylock is My Name The second novel in The Hogarth Shakespeare Series ‘Who is this guy, Dad? 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. 4.3 • 3 Ratings; $12.99; $12.99; Publisher Description. Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold Hogarth Shakespeare: Amazon.es: Jacobson, Howard: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Shylock is My Name, by Howard Jacobson, Hogarth Pess, RRP£16.99 / RRP$25, 288 pages. Shylock Is My Name is my third experience with the Hogarth Shakespeare series and I continue to be impressed with the novels. William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel. 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. Jacobson explores the meaning of Shakespeare’s play, uses its … In Shylock is My Name, Shylock’s words are echoed in Strulovitch’s recollection of how his father had disowned him for marrying out of his Jewish faith, “ Better you were dead at my feet ” (Jacobson 2016a, p. 2), and Shylock himself counsels Strulovitch to show compassion to his own unruly daughter. It is a moving, disturbing and compelling riposte to the blithe resolution offered in the urtext." Shylock Is My Name reminds me very much, in fact, of Jacobson's 2010 Man Booker Prize winner The Finkler Question, another book about recreating the Jewish identity in the modern world. To order this book from the Telegraph for £14.99 plus £1.99 p&p call 0844 871 1515 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk Shylock is My Name book. 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. Written by: Howard Jacobson. The following is from Howard Jacobson's novel, Shylock Is My Name.Jacobson has written fourteen novels and five works of non-fiction. Read "Shylock Is My Name William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel" by Howard Jacobson available from Rakuten Kobo. We meet Shylock immediately—in fact, we meet him twice, but more on that in a bit—in the person of Simon Strulovitch who is wealthy, emotionally distant and slightly vindictive; secularized but unable to renounce his Jewish roots. Cancel anytime. Shylock Is My Name: Stephen Greenblatt and Howard Jacobson in Conversation. 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. by Howard Jacobson. BUY NOW FROM ... and that touch of magical realism that imports every pound of Shylock in the fictional flesh. Shylock Is My Name. Shylock Is My Name The Merchant of Venice Retold (Book) : Jacobson, Howard : The second book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series heralds the full-on 2016 anniversary celebration of Shakespeare: Man Booker Prize winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life retells the powerful, controversial story of Shylock. Howard Jacobson, Shylock is My Name: 'A pound of flesh and a hint of George Formby', book review. Read by: Michael Kitchen. Howard Jacobson. 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. Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name is the second installment of Hogarth Shakespeare’s series of plays retold by contemporary authors and provides the series with an already well-needed expansion. Reading Shylock Is My Name undid me, reminding me of the irrefutable otherness that still manifests itself. SHYLOCK IS MY NAME. Shylock is my name by Howard Jacobson, 2016, Penguin Random House edition, in English Rebecca Abrams’s ‘The Jewish Journey’ will be published this year by Ashmolean Books. Read 403 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Shylock Is My Name. By: Howard Jacobson Narrated by: Michael Kitchen Try for $0.00 $14.95/month after 30 days. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. --The Sydney Morning Herald --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition. [Shylock Is My Name] is a moving, disturbing and compelling riposte to the blithe resolution offered in the urtext." S HYLOCK IS MY NAME by Howard Jacobson 288PP, Hogarth, £16.99, ebook £9.99. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (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. Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) - Kindle edition by Jacobson, Howard. My Name Is Shylock is a retelling of The Merchant of Venice and if you just want to read a short review, here it is: The writing style is complex, the vocabulary is intense although not so hard that the book is unreadable but I deducted half a star from my rating because I think some of Jacobson’s pedantic text distracted a little from the overall presentation. Shylock Is My Name William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel.
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