Stephen D.: A Play in Two ActsStephen D, as described by Michael Coveney of The Guardian newspaper, was "a skilful conflation of two James Joyce works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero, [it] made [Hugh Leonard] a name to reckon with at the Dublin theatre festival". Leonard's production note also observes that "... Joyce's main objective was not to portray external truths; his intent was to write from within, to show the influences under which the mind of Stephen Dedalus (or Joyce, if you like) rebelled against and finally rejected the four greats "F's" of Ireland: faith, fatherland, family and friendship. This was Joyce's aim, and it is the objective of Stephen D." |
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