No, not that Anne Hathaway. The Shakespearean one.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.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. On the Blog:A Shakespearean Ghost Story Part 2: Anne Hath a WayBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | BlueSky | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
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AEIOU
Stephen Dedalus beats debt with this one simple trick!Topics incluce: “Scylla and Charybdis’” dialectic as metacommentary on Ulysses as a whole, the perils of offending the gods of the sea, Stephen takes offense to Æ, Stephen’s many debts, the artistic value of green room gossip, contrasting Æ and Mr. Deasy, Stephen as the ship of Theseus, Aristotelian logic destroying Stephen’s sill loophole, Fr. Conmee, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, form of forms, entelechy, and many, many tangents.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Entelechy, Form of FormsBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
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Bonus Ep. 31 - Hamlet [TEASER]
We decided to brush up on our Hamlet knowledge in the only way we know how -- by watching a movie from the forties! We watch and discuss Laurence Olivier's Hamlet from 1948.Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast
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Hamnet
Stephen Dedalus finally gets to the fireworks factory.Topics in this episode include lots of Hamlet, Stephen introduces his theory of Hamlet, James Joyce’s Shakespeare sources, Elizabethan slang, Sackerson the bear, everything we know about the real Hamnet Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s reaction to his son’s death, how Hamnet’s death shows up in the works of Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s reaction to his father’s death, Shakespeare as a commercial artist, audience interpretations of Hamlet over the centuries, Freudian analysis of Hamlet, how Æ’s objections predict the New Criticism movements of the 20th century, and how all this talk of Shakespeare is actually about Leopold Bloom.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Hamlet, ou le Absentminded Beggar Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
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The Absentminded Beggar
Was Hamlet just distracted the whole time?Topics in this episode include: the continued character assassination of Mr. Best, Haines makes a return, Douglas Hyde’s poetry, the artistic ethos of the Celtic Revival, the political demands of the art scene in 1904 Dublin, Æ, symbolist poetry and Stéphane Mallarmé, the influence of Mallarmé on Joyce, “Hamlet et Fortinbras,” Rudyard Kipling and “The Absentminded Beggar,” the politics of the Boer War in 1904, Shakespeare as propaganda, Khaki Hamlets and the brutality of Shakespeare, the Mitchelstown Massacre, Algernon Swinburne and “On the Death of Colonel Benson,” British use of concentration camps during the Boer War, and further use of British literary icons as propaganda.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
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