The Merchant of Venice as an Early 21st Century British Jewish Novel: Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name

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The Merchant of Venice as an Early 21st Century British Jewish Novel: Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name
Original language description
Howard Jacobson is a British Jewish writer who finally became recognized after almost three decades of novel writing in 2010 when he received the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question. For his contribution to the ongoing Hogarth Shakespeare project, Jacobson chose to rewrite The Merchant of Venice as Shylock Is My Name (2016) in order to provide a sympathetic portrayal of Shylock in the context of a contemporary, predominantly British setting. Shylock is in fact present in the novel twice, as Shakespeare’s character transposed to our time and as Simon Strulovitch, his double who is a philanthropist living in Cheshire, while all of the other Shakespeare’s characters have been renamed and reimagined as representatives of early 21st century society. As Shylock’s memories mirror Strulovitch’s problems, the text not only illustrates the universal themes of Shakespeare’s play, but also focuses on intolerance, revenge and mercy in relation to anti-Semitism in early 21st century Britain.
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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