Edna O'Brien on James Joyce's Exiles
James Joyce wrote only one play, Exiles. It was rejected by theatres and scorned by critics, but it gives us a valuable insight into his turbulent marriage"I expound Shakespeare to docile Trieste" was Joyce's opening remark when in 1913, at the age of 31, he delivered the first of three lectures on Hamlet at the University del Popolo in Trieste. He had a lifelong obsession with Hamlet: his fictional alter-ego Stephen…