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Type Exiles

Name: Exiles
Author: James Joyce

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Drama

Having spent nine years in Italy, writer Richard Rowan and his de facto wife Bertha have recently returned to Dublin with their eight-year-old son Archie. Beatrice Justice, who arrives at the Rowans’ house at the play’s opening, has corresponded with Richard throughout their absence, and her appointment as his son’s piano teacher is an excuse for them to see one another. The beginnings of a relationship have also formed between...

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CHAPTERS

Dramatis Personae

Richard Rowan, a writer Bertha Archie, their son, aged eight years Robert Hand, journalist Beatrice Justice, his cousin, music teacher Brigid, an old servant of the Rowan family A Fishwoman At Merrion...

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Act 1

The drawingroom in Richard Rowan’s house at Merrion, a suburb of Dublin. On the right, forward, a fireplace, before which stands a low screen. Over the mantelpiece a giltframed glass. Further back in ...

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Act 2

A room in Robert Hand’s cottage at Ranelagh. On the right, forward, a small black piano, on the rest of which is an open piece of music. Farther back a door leading to the street door. In the wall, at...

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Act 3

The drawingroom of Richard Rowan’s house at Merrion. The folding doors at the right are closed and also the double doors leading to the garden. The green plush curtains are drawn across the window on ...

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