Ulysses

Reading Plan (Gabler edition, 1986)

Gilbert Schema (The Joyce Project)

The Text and Guides

• James Joyce, Ulysses (Project Gutenberg)
• James Joyce, Ulysses (Full Audio Book in 4 Parts)
• Gerry Carlin and Mair Evans, Ulysses – The Album (Genius.com)
• Patrick Hastings, Ulysses Guide (2016–2020)
• John Hunt, The Joyce Project
  • Or a bigger version
  • Schemas
    • Linati Schema
    • Gilbert Schema
    • Correspondences
• James A. W. Heffernan, “Joyce’s Ulysses,” The Great Courses
• James Heffernan, “Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, & the Ghost of Shakespeare in Chapter 9 of Ulysses,” Lannan Foundation (June 25, 2020)

About James Joyce and Ulysses

• The James Joyce Center
• Merve Emre, “The Seductions of Ulysses,” The New Yorker (February 7, 2022)
• James Joyce, “Reading from Ulysses” (4:12 min.)

Why Read Ulysses?

• Sam Slote, “Why should you read James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’?” (5:58 min.)
• Salman Rushdie, “Salman Rushdie recaps ‘Ulysses’ in 20 seconds” (0:39 min.)
• Stephen Fry, “Stephen Fry on Ulysses – James Joyce” (1:52 min.)
• WYNC, “Why Read James Joyce?” (2:09 min.)
• The Morgan Library and Museum, “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses” (5:18 min.)
• Sylvia Beach, “Sylvia Beach on Meeting James Joyce, 1962” (4:27 min.)
• Great Big Book Club, “James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’” (1:45:39 hr.)
• Patrick O’Donnell, “Why James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (still) matters on its 100th anniversary” (1:00:30 hr.)

Podcasts and Commentaries

• Great Books Explained, “Ulysses by James Joyce” (15:00 min.)
• Kelly and Dermot, Blooms and Barnacles (begins November 1, 2018 and continues into present)
• Frank Delaney, Re: Joyce – Podcast (start at Episode 0 on Digital Podcast or Apple Podcasts)

Films and Plays

• Films
  • Ulysses (1967, 1:59:51)
    • Directed by Joseph Strick and screenplay by Fred Haines and Joseph Strick (Dublin: Laser Film Corporation and Ulysses Film Production, 1967)
  • “Ulysses” (1988, 1:00:26)
    • Episode from Ten Great Writers of the World, directed by Nigel Wattis and screenplay by Gillian Greenwood and Nigel Wattis (London: London Weekend Television, 1988)
  • Ulysses (2020, 1:09:27)
    • Directed by Alan Gilsenan (2020: Museum of Literature Ireland, 2020)
• Plays and Operas
  • Ulysses in Nighttown, adapted by Marjorie Barkentin and music by Peter Link (1958)
  • Nighttown (2022, 3:14:18)
    • Directed by Adrienne Boris and libretto and music by Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg (Cambridge: Lowell House Opera Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, March 12, 2022)
    • Debby Das, “‘Nighttown’ Preview: Molly Bloom Takes the Stage in an Operatic Reimagining of ‘Ulysses,’” The Harvard Crimson (March 8, 2022)