Ep. 163 - The Spirit of Reconciliation

Bitches love sonnets.

Topics in this episode include putting Beurla on it, basilisks and 13th century bestiaries, Pericles and purported Shakespeare apocrypha, the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship, Bacon ciphers, George Brandes, Sidney, Frank Harris, the power of a granddaughter’s love, Hans Walter Gabler and the most controversial line in Ulysses, Thomas Aquinas, George Bernard Shaw’s take on Shakespeare, we finally get to the sonnets, Mary Fitton, William Herbet, Shakespeare’s trauma, consubstantiality, and one of the best entrances in all of literature.

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Further Reading:

  1. Dates and sources | Pericles | Royal Shakespeare Company. (n.d.). Www.rsc.org.uk. https://www.rsc.org.uk/pericles/about-the-play/dates-and-sources 

  2. Ellmann, R. (1986, Jun 15). Finally, the last word on 'Ulysses': the ideal text, and portable too. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce-ideal.html

  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. Graham, T. (2018, May 1). George Bernard Shaw on William Shakespeare: Playwrights and critics. Folger Shakespeare Library. https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/george-bernard-shaw-on-shakespeare/ 

  5. Lee, Sir Sidney. (2024). Jewishvirtuallibrary.org.https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lee-sir-sidney 

  6. 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 

  7. Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan. 

  8. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. (n.d.). Shakespeare’s First Folio. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-works/shakespeares-first-folio/

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