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Shylock's consuming hatred of the merchant Antonio, for example, has been clearly provoked by a lifetime of spiteful humiliations suffered at the latter's hands.

Antonio acts as the loan's guarantor, promising that if he is unable to pay the loan at a specified date, Shylock may take a pound of Antonio's flesh.

Focusing on the reception of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the Jewish character Shylock in Germany during the 20th and 21st centuries, Ackermann and Schulting emphasize how the text has changed in light of National Socialism and the Holocaust.

I was interested in Shylock the first time I read The Merchant of Venice.

Of course the banks turned them down, so they turned to a Shylock. The interest rate demanded was some 30 per cent, so much so that Surraiya was eventually giving up a large chunk of her salary (as a housemaid) to just pay the mounting monthly interest, without even touching the capital to the cost of feeding the family.

In its reorientation of the protagonist's "passing" from the present progressive to the past tense, the novel evokes Roth's Human Stain (2000), about a black man's lifelong passing as a white Jew, yet its more compelling novelistic twin is Roth's Operation Shylock. In both texts, the presence of doppelgangers shatters any sense of the body as a reliable indicator of identity.

On Monday, police had gone to arrest a shylock accused of auctioning residents' property without following due process.

According to The Guardian, the Oscar-winning actor will be directed by Michael Radford, who worked with Pacino in 2004's 'The Merchant of Venice' where the actor played Shylock. 'King Lear' is the story of a once-great monarch who descends into madness.

And rather than coming away feeling sympathy for poor Shylock's fate or uneasy about the way the "beautiful" Portia contrives her own happy ending, the audience went off into the Cardiff night simply beaming.

For his Freiburg Merchant, he cast an international group of actors: Shylock was played by Doron Tavory from Israel; Jessica by American dancer Monica Gillette; Lancelot Gobbo by Orhan Mtistak, a German actor of Kurdish origin; and Gratiano by Andreas Helgi Schmid, who has a German-Icelandic background.

T HIS week we talk to Rhodri Miles, whose one man play touring Wales looks at the life of fiction's most famous Jew, and asks if Shylock, from the Merchant of Venice was a villain or a victim?

At the heart of the debate is the famous penalty clause that Venetian ship owner Antonio allows to be imposed on him by Jewish moneylender Shylock. The clause requires a pound of Antonio's own flesh in the event that he defaults on payment of his loan.

Now age 73 and walking with the "stoop of a prophet," as an interview once noted, Jacobson has for his latest project reanimated perhaps the most infamous Jew in all of English literature: Shylock. Shy lock Is My Name--Jacobson's contemporary spin on The Merchant of Venice, the problem play to end all problem plays--is one of a series of novelistic retellings of Shakespeare plays being published by Hogarth (the famous press founded by Virginia Woolf) to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death.

Johansson's novel strikes a balance between the worlds of science fiction and speculative fiction in order to tell a rich story following one man's quest in the distant future for truth and memory on a planet called Shylock. Full of genetics, clever allusions, and above all an interesting examination of human nature, Googolplex tugs at the imagination long past its final sentence.

IMAGINE: SHYLOCK'S GHOST BBC1, 10.35pm The arts documentary strand returns, and kicks off with Alan Yentob travelling to the ghetto Venice with Howard Jacobson as the novelist embarks on a modern retelling of William Shakespeare's most performed play, The Merchant of Venice.