Hogarth Shakespeare: Shylock Is My Name : William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel (Paperback)

from kbuchanan

This book was, I admit, a difficult one for me to pin down. I received a copy through the Early Reviewers group, and so was reading knowing that I would be reviewing. Even so, my opinions on even whether or not I was enjoying the book were constantly in flux. On the surface, this is a modern - "r...

from Cariola

This is the first in the new Hogarth Shakespeare series that I have read, and I look forward to more-even though this one didn't impress me quite as much as it has some other readers. The opening scene is an attention grabber: while visiting his mother's grave, Simon Strulovitch sees a man in a f...

from LizzieD

Is it your wish to read The Merchant of Venice from the point of view of a 21st century Shylock? Shylock Is My Name is your book then. Simon Strulovitch is living Shylock's story when he meets the real Shylock in a cemetery and takes him home. The best parts of the book show these two trying to f...

from TadAD

Shakespeare's Shylock has always been a conundrum. On one hand we have the avaricious, vengeful, prejudiced, clownish Jew of The Merchant of Venice, a character it is almost impossible to like. Yet, on the other, the author has placed one of the play's two most memorable monologues...a monologue ...

from Liz1564

Shylock Is My Name by Jacobson is the second in the Hogarth Shakespeare's series retelling the canon. A 21st century Jew from Manchester meets Shakespeare's Shylock in a graveyard where Simon Strulovitch is remembering the one year anniversary of his mother's death and Shylock is conversing with ...