Shylock Must Die
$30.75
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2018
Summary
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 Shakespear…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781905559947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1905559941 |
| Author: | Clive Sinclair |
| Publisher: | Peter Halban Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Peter Halban Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 141mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Clive Sinclair
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.
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