“Exiles” – Initial Reception

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The Evening Post

July 5, 1918

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“The interest is purely dramatic, but some of the characters may be taken as not untypical of the intellectuals and aesthetes of Dublin; as the leader-writer who remarks that “If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. Some day we shall have to chose between England and Europe.”

Anonymous

The Guardian

May 27, 1918

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“It may be read with interest, but there is little action for the dialogue to illuminate, and theatre managers would certainly be shy of these introspective, self-conscious people who are so plainly deficient in common sense.”

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Liverpool Daily Post

May 22, 1918

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“We hope Mr. Joyce will not waste his remarkable gift for realism on any more monotonous duologues like this, it is a large discussion of an unhealthy old theme.”

Anonymous

The Scotsman

May 16, 1918

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“Despite its somewhat nebulous plot, Mr James Joyce’s three-act play Exiles (3s. 6d. net. London: Grant Richards) makes interesting reading.”

Anonymous

Northern Whig

May 16, 1918

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“BOOKS RECEIVED.”

Anonymous

The New York Times Book Review

April 14, 1918

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“A three-act play by the author of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.””

Anonymous

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“A play in three acts, the scenes of which are laid in the suburbs of Dublin during the Summer of the year 1912.” — The New York Times Book Review (July 7, 1918)

The Drama

February 1916

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“It is not so good as a novel; nevertheless it is quite good enough to form a very solid basis for my arraignment of the contemporary theatre.”

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

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