Joyce/Shakespeare: A Room of Infinite Possibilities

Joyce/Shakespeare is a well-chosen collection of essays, ranging from the familiar Hamlet/Stephen interface that is developed in the ninth chapter of Ulysses to a re-evaluation of the place of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Sir Philip Sydney in Joyce's creation of that chapter. In addition to an examination of Joyce's Trieste Years during which Joyce gave the Hamlet lectures that were the basis of the chapter, there are also studies which emphasize the importance of Othello, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida, and The Tempest. Insofar as the collection concludes with an essay on radical contextual potentiality in a Hamlet/Wake connection, the endless fertility of this old subject is affirmed and demonstrated.