ABSTRACT
James Joyce may well have envisaged a drama or, as Stuart Gilbert suggests, a film based upon one or both of his later novels: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In both works we find sections written in dialogue form and complete with stage directions. But, of the three plays thus far drawn from Joyce's novels, only one, Ulysses in Nighttown, can be classified as a successful adaptation of Joyce's work. The other two are instructive failures.
