A play in three acts produced by the White Rose Company in Harrogate during the week beginning Monday 22 April 1940. A proposed London run never took place. The play was never published. A copy of the script was located in November 2007 in the Lord Chamberlain’s Archive at the British Library where it had been submitted for censorship. A revival is scheduled for October 2011. As with the play The Beggars Bush by Fletcher and Massinger the eponymous place is just that, and no more. It appears to have been an attractive name, but no more. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 10th, 2011 | Filed under: Writers | Tags: James Joyce, Literary, The Play, Victor Canning, W H Auden | No Comments »
XVI. The Hero
He parried every question that they hurled:
“What did the Emperor tell you?” “Not to push.”
“What is the greatest wonder of the world?”
“The bare man Nothing in the Beggar’s Bush.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Joyce’s references in Ulysses and in Finnegan’s Wake to Beggars Bush are not literary usages. These are examples of the phrase re-entering literature from a place name. Joyce is referring to the place name in Dublin. From April to August 1904 he lodged with the McKernon’s in Beggars Bush, Donnybrook. This is also the source of several more twentieth century usages in folk and punk songs. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 10th, 2011 | Filed under: Writers | Tags: David King, Dublin, Flogging Molly, James Joyce, Literary, The 'Ol Beggars Bush, Whiskey on a Sunday | No Comments »
