{"id":40696,"date":"2016-08-02T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40696"},"modified":"2017-10-18T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:19:38","slug":"shylock-name-howard-jacobson-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/shylock-name-howard-jacobson-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Shylock Is My Name [Hogarth Shakespeare] by Howard Jacobson  [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40616\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/03\/Shylock-Is-My-Name-by-Howard-Jacobson-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-497x800.jpg\" alt=\"Shylock Is My Name by Howard Jacobson on BookDragon via Library Journal\" width=\"497\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/03\/Shylock-Is-My-Name-by-Howard-Jacobson-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-497x800.jpg 497w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/03\/Shylock-Is-My-Name-by-Howard-Jacobson-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage-books.co.uk\/about-us\/Hogarth\/The-Hogarth-Shakespeare1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hogarth Shakespeare<\/a> series\u2014\u201cShakespeare\u2019s plays reimagined by some of today\u2019s bestselling and most celebrated writers\u201d \u2013 continues with three additional releases in 2016: Jacobson\u2019s take on <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>, Anne Tyler\u2019s reimagining of <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em> in June\u2019s <em>Vinegar Girl<\/em>, and Margaret Atwood rewriting <em>The Tempest<\/em> in October\u2019s <em>Hag-Seed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson (<em>Zoo Time<\/em>) makes perfect use of his lesser-known background in Shakespearean scholarship to imbue the original story of dark revenge with unexpected humor. Jacobson\u2019s contemporary Shylock looks on as his 21st-century counterpart Simon Strulovitch navigates his place in wealthy Manchester, England, society as an art dealer wrestling with his family\u2019s Jewish heritage. His daughter\u2019s romantic entanglement with a Nazi-saluting football star sets in motion the famed \u201cpound of flesh\u201d leitmotif immortalized in <em>Venice<\/em> with remarkably unforeseen results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Provocative and unsettling, Jacobson\u2019s insightful examination of contemporary Jewish identity gets resonating attention from British actor Michael Kitchen. Library patrons with a penchant for fresh new ways to read the Bard will undoubtedly seek (and receive) satisfaction in all titles of the Hogarth series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2016\/07\/media\/audio\/audiobooks-from-barton-bauer-carpenter-chiarella-jacobson-pope-francis-spinella-xpress-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, July 29, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hogarth Shakespeare series\u2014\u201cShakespeare\u2019s plays reimagined by some of today\u2019s bestselling and most celebrated writers\u201d \u2013 continues with three additional releases in 2016: Jacobson\u2019s take on The Merchant of Venice, Anne Tyler\u2019s reimagining of The Taming of the Shrew in June\u2019s Vinegar Girl, and Margaret&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,114,6,312,6535],"tags":[6608,6935,70,13,7094,6936,39,55,6730,6934],"class_list":["post-40696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-british","category-fiction","category-jewish","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-howard-jacobson","tag-library-journal","tag-love","tag-merchant-of-venice","tag-michael-kitchen","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-religious-differences","tag-series-hogarth-shakespeare","tag-shylock-is-my-name"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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