James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Ep.014: reel world! (p. 63:20-69:4)


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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode

we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 63 to 69 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an
introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 63:20-69:4) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

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This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience.

Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to

Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: “the reel world,” “The Keel Row” song, James Joyce and cinema, film, Dublin’s first movie theatre the Volta, Sergei Eisenstein, “a strawberry frolic,” cherchez la femme, ménage à trois, Peaches and Daddy Browning scandal, Benny

Hill, synopsis.

Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free

copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken

Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, fweet.org

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Cited: Ronald Bergan. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict (1997). New York, Arcade, 2016.

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