Rollsrights

From FinnegansWiki
Revision as of 05:30, 4 July 2006 by Eroica (talk | contribs) (annotations)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigationJump to search
  • Rolls Royce: a type of motorcar → morning traffic in Paris (where FW was written) and in Dublin (where FW is set)
  • Rollright Stones: a stone circle near Chipping Norton
  • Royce: Edward William Royce, an English comic actor famous for his pantomime roles
    • Ulysses 010.03: "She heard old Royce sing in the pantomime of Turko the terrible.."
    • FW 205.29: "with the role of a royss in his turgos the turrible"
  • Raoul de Nangis: the Protestant hero of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera Les Huguenots; the role was once sung by John Sullivan, the Irish-French tenor whose career Joyce championed