The lost armada is his jeer in Love’s Labour Lost.
Fourth cast. I got 168 and 754.
The lost armada is his jeer in Love’s Labour Lost. His pageants, the histories, sail fullbellied on a tide of Mafeking enthusiasm. Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we have a porter’s theory of equivocation.
The thoughts of Stephen Dedalus, the other main character in Ulysses. His poetic language. Pretentious and esoteric. The paragraph containing this passage is particularly dense and I think one of the best part of Episode 9. Here, the link between Shakespeare's creation and current events is described.
The defeat of Spain's invincible Armada
(1588) is ridiculed by the strange Spanish name Don Adriano de Armado in Love's Labor's Lost
Shakespeare's historical plays are
associated with Mafeking fervor. Mafeking is a battleground of the Boer War
(1899-1902), a war between the British and the Dutch settlers in South Africa.
This war was a current event in the time of the novel (1904). The Boer War is
one of the important motifs of this novel.
Henry Garnet, a Jesuit who was a suspect in
the Gunpowder Plot (1605), an assassination attempt on King James I, came under
public criticism, using sophistry in his trial called equivocation, He was made
fun of in the speech of the gatekeeper in Act 2, Scene 3 of Macbeth.
“PORTER. [Knocking.] Knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’ other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in, equivocator.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 3)
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a hero of Mafeking,
and his colleagues. He founded the Boy Scouts inspired by this battle.
These photos remind me of the mysterious
atmosphere of Thomas Pynchon's novel.
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