Blooms & Barnacles

The Absentminded Beggar


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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.

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