Shylock is My Name, 9781784878863
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Shakespeare’s Shylock reborn: revenge, justice, and a very unlikely friendship.
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Shylock is My Name

The Merchant of Venice, Retold

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    29 June 2026

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Summary

Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is ingeniously reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism.

‘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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784878863
ISBN-10:1784878863
Author:Howard Jacobson
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:29 June 2026
Weight:206g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 21mm
Series:Shakespeare Retold
About The Author

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

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