Ep. 160: Anne Hath A Way

Scylla and CharybdisStephen DedalusPodcast
Written By Kelly Bryan

No, not that Anne Hathaway. The Shakespearean one.

An illustration of Shakespeare's family life, c. 1890, George Edward Perine

Topics in this episode include Socratididion’s Epipsychidion, unparalleled pettiness, Stephen’s unfair characterization of Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway, why commentary about Anne Hathaway has been so problematic historically, Anne as a Gertrude stand-in, how we can learn factual information about the Shakespeares’ lives, sixteenth century age gap discourse, Anne and Will’s marriage prospects, “Venus and Adonis,” marriage and weddings in Elizabethan England, how Anne Hathaway became a symbol of Victorian propaganda, Shakespeare and the “Scylla and Charybdis” schema, and why Ulysses is a terrible place to go to learn about Shakespeare’s life.

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Further Reading:

  1. Benstock, S. (1975). “Ulysses” as Ghoststory. James Joyce Quarterly, 12(4), 396–413. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25487216 

  2. Fuchs, D. (2015). “He Puts Bohemia on the Seacoast and Makes Ulysses Quote Aristotle”: Shakespearean Gaps and the Early Modern Method of Analogy and Correspondence in Joyce’s Ulysses. In Laura Pelaschiar (ed.), Joyce/Shakespeare (21-37). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://books.google.ie/books?id=sYL3CgAAQBAJ&dq=anne+hathaway+ulysses&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s 

  3. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk 

  4. Greer, G. (2008). Shakespeare’s Wife. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

  5. Heiniger, A. (2012). “The Supreme Question”: Gratifying the Loathly Lady in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 49(2), 315–334. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24598823 

  6. Kellogg, R. (1974). Scylla and Charybdis. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (147-179). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg

  7. Kimball, J. (1973). The Hypostasis in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 10(4), 422-438. Retrieved February 20, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25487079 

  8. Michels, J. (1983). “Scylla and Charybdis”: Revenge in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 20(2), 175–192. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476502 

  9. Ryan, K. (2014). Milly Bloom as Blind Spot in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 52(1), 17-35. Retrieved July 21, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/44162648

  10. SCHEIL, K. (2009). The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway. Critical Survey, 21(3), 59–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41556328

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