From james Joyce's ulysses to marjorie barkentin's ulysses in nighttown: a study on an adaptaptation of a novel into a play

The intertextuality between the texts has an active role on the perception of the texts. There is a very close relationship between intertextuality and adaptation, because every adaptation is the outcome of a dialogue between texts. In this study Ulysses and Ulysses in Nighttown which was adapted from it are analyzed in the modernist context by considering the issues of colonialism and gender. The events in the novel and the play take place in Dublin in 1904 and Ireland was a colony of the British Empire on those days, and there were serious conflicts between Irish nationalists and the British colonizers. In addition, most of the events in the play take place in Nighttown which is full of whore houses because the play is mainly based on the ?Circe? episode of the novel and in this part of the play, gender categories are questioned. Since the novel and the play have different structures and narrative techniques, the adaptor omitted some details which would spoil the dramatic structure of the play although she borrowed many others from the novel. She has included a narrator to the play to reflect different narrative techniques in each episode in the novel. She also utilizes some techniques such as stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue to give an idea about the inner life of the characters.