Shylock is My Name : The Merchant of Venice, Retold

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is ingeniously reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. ‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ With 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... ‘Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original