Blooms & Barnacles

Hamnet


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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.

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