Ep. 158 - Hamnet
Stephen Dedalus finally gets to the fireworks factory.
Topics in this episode include lots of Hamlet, Stephen introduces his theory of Hamlet, James Joyce’s Shakespeare sources, Elizabethan slang, Sackerson the bear, everything we know about the real Hamnet Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s reaction to his son’s death, how Hamnet’s death shows up in the works of Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s reaction to his father’s death, Shakespeare as a commercial artist, audience interpretations of Hamlet over the centuries, Freudian analysis of Hamlet, how Æ’s objections predict the New Criticism movements of the 20th century, and how all this talk of Shakespeare is actually about Leopold Bloom.
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Further Reading:
Bynum, W. F., & Neve, M. (1986). Hamlet on the Couch: Hamlet is a kind of touchstone by which to measure changing opinion—psychiatric and otherwise—about madness. American Scientist, 74(4), 390–396. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27854253
Kain, R. M. (1964). James Joyce’s Shakespeare Chronology. The Massachusetts Review, 5(2), 342–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25087112
Reichert, K. (2009). Shakespeare and Joyce: Myriadminded men. In H. Bloom (ed.), Bloom’s modern critical views: James Joyce, New edition. Retrieved from https://books.google.ie/books?id=Xp6JaA565uEC&dq=hamnet+shakespeare+james+joyce&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Schutte, W. (1957). Joyce and Shakespeare; a study in the meaning of Ulysses. New Haven: Yale University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/joyceshakespeare00schu
Wheeler, R. P. (2000). Deaths in the Family: The Loss of a Son and the Rise of Shakespearean Comedy. Shakespeare Quarterly, 51(2), 127–153. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902129