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Exiles

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James Joyce

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The Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play and is based on The Dead, the final short story in Joyce's Dublin Collection of Stories. The play was turned down by WB Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major show was in London in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. The plot is deceptively simple: Richard, a writer, returns to Ireland from Rome with Bertha, the mother of his illegitimate son, Archie. While there, he meets ex-lover and reporter Beatrice Justice and former drinking partner and now successful journalist Robert Hand. Robert was also in love with Beatrice, and this is where the complications begin.
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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is considered one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a historical work in which episodes of Homer's epic are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, the most famous stream of consciousness. Other famous works include the short story collection Dublin Residents (1914), the novels Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Vegans Week (1939). His other publications include three books of poetry, plays, published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin to a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he attended briefly the O'Connell School run by the Christian Brothers before excelling at the Jesuit Klonjois and Belvedere Schools, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's unexpected financial resources. He went to attend University College Dublin.

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