# Shylock Must Die

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- Book: [Shylock Must Die](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-sinclair/shylock-must-die) ([Shylock Must Die.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-sinclair/shylock-must-die.md))
- Authors: [Clive Sinclair](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-sinclair)
- Publisher: Halban Publishers
- ISBN: 978-19-0555-994-7
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.