Richard Rowan, a writer who has returned to Dublin after years abroad with Bertha, the woman he lives with, discovers that his old friend Robert Hand is courting her. Instead of forbidding it, Richard refuses to interfere, insisting on her absolute freedom, while Beatrice Justice, Robert’s cousin, watches the triangle with her own divided feelings.
Joyce’s only surviving play, written between A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, and published in 1918. Download the free EPUB.