Ep. 173 - Medical Dick and Medical Davy

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Written By Kelly Bryan

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Topics in this episode include the grande finale of Stephen’s Hamlet theory, he finally proves by algebra that Shakespeare is the ghost of his own father, dio boia, James Joyce’s reaction to Karl Bleibtreu’s Shakespeare conspiracy theories, Dana, Fred Ryan, the poetry and theatrical stylings of Buck Mulligan, Oliver St. John Gogarty’s play Blight, and the origin story of Medical Dick and Medical Davy.

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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. Carens, J.F. (1979). Surpassing Wit: Oliver St. John Gogarty, his poetry and his prose. Columbia University Press: New York. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/surpassingwitoli0000care_t4j4

  3. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.

  4. 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 

  5. Gogarty, O.S. (2001). Blight. In A. Norman Jeffares (ed.) The Poems and Plays of Oliver St John Gogarty. Retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/poemsplaysofoliv0000goga/page/508/mode/2up

  6. Jackson, J.W. & Costello, P. (1998). John Stanislaus Joyce : the voluminous life and genius of James Joyce's father. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/johnstanislausjo00jack/mode/2up

  7. Lyons, J. B. (1977). Oliver St. John Gogarty: The Productive Years. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 66(262/263), 145–163. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30090069

  8. O’Connor, U. (1991). Oliver St. John Gogarty. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/oliverstjohngoga0000ocon_c0w5/page/156/mode/2up

  9. Turner, J. N., & Mamigonian, M. A. (2004). Solar Patriot: Oliver St. John Gogarty in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 41(4), 633–652. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25478099

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