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an Edmund and a Richard are recorded in the works of
sweet William.
MAGEEGLINJOHN: Names! What’s in a name?
BEST: That is my name, Richard, don’t you know. I

hope you are going to say a good word for Richard, don’t
you know, for my sake.

(Laughter)

BUCKMULLIGAN: (Piano, diminuendo)
Then outspoke medical Dick
To his comrade medical Davy ...
STEPHEN: In his trinity of black Wills, the villain
shakebags, Iago, Richard Crookback, Edmund in King
Lear, two bear the wicked uncles’ names. Nay, that last
play was written or being written while his brother
Edmund lay dying in Southwark.
BEST: I hope Edmund is going to catch it. I don’t
want Richard, my name ...
(Laughter)
QUAKERLYSTER: (A tempo) But he that filches from
me my good name ...
STEPHEN: (Stringendo) He has hidden his own name,
a fair name, William, in the plays, a super here, a clown

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