{"product_id":"shylock-is-my-name-merchant-of-venice-shakespeare-retold","title":"Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice, Retold (Shakespeare Retold)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original’ Guardian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘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’ Independent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery purchase you make supports the work of Shakespeare's Globe. Thank you!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Howard Jacobson \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize:\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e128 mm x 197 mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 304\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56677624283514,"sku":"9781784878863","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0024\/7162\/4762\/files\/shylock-is-my-name-the-merchant-of-venice.jpg?v=1773824266","url":"https:\/\/shop.shakespearesglobe.com\/products\/shylock-is-my-name-merchant-of-venice-shakespeare-retold","provider":"Shakespeare's Globe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}