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Drama
Colum, Padraic | October 12, 1918 issue

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James Joyce's play "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" is dated "Dublin 1904, Trieste 1914." The action of the book "Exiles" is indicated as passing in 1912. The play, therefore, succeeds the novel in time. But "Exiles" is far less modern than the play. The distinction of the play is in the characters presented. They are Catholic Irish, and two of them, Richard Rowan and Robert Hand, would pass beyond good and evil with words derived from Catholic philosophy on their lips. It is in the passages that James Joyce shows his power to draw a real and distinctive character.

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THEATER; JOYCE, James, 1882-1941; PERFORMING arts; FICTION; CATHOLICS; LITERATURE
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