Confronting a host of assumptions, misprisions, and prejudices, A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael Patrick Gillespie contend that Joyce's play Exiles deserves the same serious study as his fiction and stands on the cutting edge of modern drama.

"Fargnoli and Gillespie have gifted us what should become the standard text of Exiles. For the first time, the play is available to us as Joyce wanted it to appear."—Irish Studies Review "A fitting tribute to the 100th anniversary of Exiles."—English Literature in Transition "Provide[s] us . . . with a remarkably established text as well as with the reprinting of some outstanding, thought-provoking essays."—James Joyce Quarterly"This companion represents an excellent place for new readers to begin and for lapsed Joyceans to renew their acquaintance with this provocative play."—James Joyce Literary Supplement