Shylock Must Die - Softcover

Sinclair, Clive

 
9781905559947: Shylock Must Die
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1905559941 ISBN 13: 9781905559947
Verlag: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Since his first public appearance in the late 1590s, Shylock has been synonymous with antisemitism. Many of his bon mots remain common currency among Jew-haters; among them "3000 ducats" and the immortal "pound of flesh". But Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, was incapable of inventing anyone so uninteresting; instead he affords Shylock such ambiguity that some of his other lines have become keynotes for believers in shared humanity and tolerance.

Following Shakespeare's example these stories - all inspired by The Merchant of Venice - range from the comic to the melancholic. Many pivot on significant productions of the play: Stockholm in 1944, London in 2012, and Venice in 2016. Some are concerned with domestic matters, others with the political, including one - more outrageous than the others - that links Shylock via Israel with the American presidency; most combine both.

Running through these linked stories - of which there are seven, like the ages of man - is the cycle of family life, with all its comedy and tragedy.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Clive Sinclair's first novel was published in 1973, his first collection of stories in 1979. Since then his books have won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction, and the PEN Silver Pen. He was in Granta's first list of Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in London with his partner - the painter, Haidee Becker - and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1905559941
ISBN 13 
9781905559947
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar