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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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
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
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
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/
Lee, Sir Sidney. (2024). Jewishvirtuallibrary.org.https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lee-sir-sidney
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
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.
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/