Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare): Audiobook
Book 2 of the Hogarth Shakespeare series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Michael Kitchen (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.5 hours, it is shorter than 67% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Hogarth Shakespeare
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 7.2 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 34.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) | 7.2 hrs |
| 2 | Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) | 7.5 hrs |
| 3 | Vinegar Girl | 6 hrs |
| 4 | Hag-Seed | 8.2 hrs |
| 5 | New Boy | 5.4 hrs |
More narrated by Michael Kitchen
Michael Kitchen narrates 8 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 75 hours in all.
- The Great Train Robbery
- Archangel: From the bestselling author of Conclave
- Brother Cadfael: A BBC Radio Collection of three full-cast dramatisations
- Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold
- The Ealing Comedy Collection: BBC Radio Full-Cast Remakes of The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico & Whisky Galore!
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
2,080 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) is book 2 of Howard Jacobson's Hogarth Shakespeare series: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Kitchen, released February 4, 2016, on the Literary Fiction and Religious Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael Kitchen
- Released
- February 4, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction
- Series
- Hogarth Shakespeare #2
- ISBN
- 9781473545595
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) audiobook?
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
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Who narrates Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)?
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) is narrated by Michael Kitchen.