{"product_id":"shylock-is-my-name","title":"Shylock is My Name","description":"\u003cp\u003eShakespeare'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’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’ IndependentSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombies. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Vintage Publishing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 304\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 10: 1784878863\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 13: 9781784878863\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howard Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52763533312266,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781784878863.jpg?v=1774351390","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/shylock-is-my-name","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}