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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Svazek periodika

5

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

16-23

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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