Ep. 171 - Richard and Gilbert and Edmund and Will

What if the Shakespeares were really a bunch of crumb-bums?

Richard… Shakespeare?

Topics in this episode include Shakespeare’s brothers Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund, which ones Stephen thinks were bad brothers and which were good brothers, whether Shakespeare turned his brothers into villains in his plays, Anne Hathaway’s relationship to her brothers-in-law, why Shakespeare’s brothers never married, Gilbert and Richard’s criminal records, whether Gilbert traveled to London to see As You Like It, Edmund’s attempt to become an actor, which one was Shakespeare’s favorite brother, wrastlin’, brotherly incest and psychoanalysis, Stephen’s owned disappeared brother Maurice, and justice for Mr. Best.

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Further Reading: 

  1. Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and symbol: The consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.

  2. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt 

  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. Kimball, J. (1976). James Joyce and Otto Rank: The Incest Motif in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 13(3), 366–382. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25487278 

  6. Peterson, R. F. (1990). Did Joyce Write “Hamlet?” James Joyce Quarterly, 27(2), 365–372. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485041 

  7. Sayers, W. (2006). Best the Mythographer, Dinneen the Lexicographer: Muted Nationalism in “Scylla and Charybdis.” Papers on Joyce 12 (2006): 7-24. Retrieved from http://www.siff.us.es/iberjoyce/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/5-PoJ12-Sayers.pdf 

  8. 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 

  9. Simpson, J. (2025). Richard Best. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/richard-best

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