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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 114 to 119 from Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.
Richard’s reading (p.114:21-119:9) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024.
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“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. 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); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening!
Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis.
Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FWto 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: “Rauschenberg’s Cultural Canvas,” by Hank Burchard, Washington Post, 1991-05-12.
