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Jan 1, 1987 · A beautifully written story of an actress who attends a film festival in Venice, then heads into the past to meet young Will. As she studies for the part of Jessica, Shylock's daughter in the The Merchant of Venice, a witch casts a spell that brings the past and present together.
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- Hardcover
Shylock's Daughter is the culmination of a love affair with the city of Venice that begins with Jong's first visit at the age of nineteen. Drawn by the city's watery beauty and the legacy of Byron, James and, especially, Shakespeare, who set seven of his plays there, Shylock's Daughter was completed over four summers spent in Venice and the ...
What is their fate and what will they generate in this creative environment? This captivating story briefly scans the history but still holds the reader’s fascination and leaves a haunting contemplation in its Venetian wake. (Originally published under the title Serenissima.)
4/5: This book is split into two parts with incredibly blurred boundaries. These two sections are divided by hundreds of years but told by the same narrator, accompanied by her strong and whimsical voice. There is a great reverence placed upon music, poetry, love, and the arts at large. A special emphasis is given to Shakespeare from the beginning, and this fixation escalates over the course ...
- Sara
So much fun to read, especially if you love Shakespeare and/or Venice, as Jong plainly does. A highly personal account of a literary woman's lust for life, including, of course, motherhood!
Jan 1, 1995 · Erica Jong takes her heroine, Jessica, from the Venice Film Festival to the past where she is the Daughter of Shylock. She meets and makes love to William and his male lover.
- Paperback
- Erica Jong
When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: she has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she is increasingly aware of the difficulty of landing leading roles.
