Richard III

  • A Shakespearean Ghoststory Part 3: Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund

    This is part three of a three part series about searching for real-life “ghosts” by prying  into Shakespeare’s personal life. You can read part one here and part two here. Near the end of “Scylla and Charybdis,” Ulysses’ ninth episode, Stephen finally arrives at the rousing conclusion of his Shakespeare theory: not only did Shakespeare…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Pretenders

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The passage below comes from “Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses. It appears on pages 45 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage that begins “Pretenders…” and…

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