The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1306  Wednesday, 18 June 2004

From:           Lucia A. Setari <
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Date:           Thursday, 17 Jun 2004 14:35:21 +0100 (BST)
Subject: 15.1292 Bloomsday
Comment:        Re: SHK 15.1292 Bloomsday

From:           Peter Bridgman

 >Just a few other connections...
 >
 >Chapter 9 of Ulysses is largely a discussion of
 >Hamlet.  The
 >Stephen/Hamlet parallels run through the book.

... and Bloom/Shakespeare parallels, too.  Not for nothing
Stephen/Hamlet is presented as the "son" of Bloom/Shakespeare. And, at
the most exciting ending of the Second Chapter, in Bloom's eyes the
image of Stephen generates or conjures that of Bloom's lost child, Rudy,
who appears as if he were not the little baby of eleven months he was
when he died, but a boy of eleven - the same age Shakespeare's  son,
Hamnet, was when he died.

Lucia A. Setari

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