French’s other operas: "The Knight of the Road," "Noah’s Ark," and "Freda and the Fairies," his lectures on Napoleon, and his comic story on Cromwell also lace the "Wake" and chime with its themes. Helen sometimes shares an identity with Anna Livia and she rescued a very bereft and doubly dejected French who fell passionately in love all over again and robustly reconstructed his life from the shipwreck of tragedy and personal loss and humiliation. How it chimes with the "Wake" is that in its chorus, French met and fell in love with his second wife-to-be, Helen Sheldon. Lowry also found the French-Collisson opera "Strongbow" in the "Wake" and it too is heavily thematic: The opera was French’s first effort after the tragic death of his first wife, which dramatically flopped in 1892 and had to be taken off the stage when The Freeman’s Journal, where Joyce’s father had powerful connections, staged a protest outside the theatre. This structure is replicated in the "Wake" where the hero has numerous pseudonyms and characters often share composite identities.
He also expands his examination of possible textual corruption and adds hundreds of new glosses to help scholars, students, and general readers untangle the dense thicket of allusions that crowds every sentence of Joyce’s nearly inscrutable masterpiece.French has a slew of pseudonyms in "The Jarvey" and sometimes these pseudonyms are shared with other contributors especially the publisher RJ Mecredy for whom Joyce seems to have harboured a particular grudge. For the first time, McHugh provides readers with a synopsis of the action of Finnegans Wake. This thoroughly updated fourth edition draws heavily on Internet resources and keyword searches. McHugh’s richly detailed annotations distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce’s diverse literary and popular sources. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly to a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer, enabling readers to look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. Roland McHugh’s classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. The essential guide to Joyce’s famously difficult book.
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