Shylock is My Name

The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

Reeks: Hogarth Shakespeare

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  • 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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