Leah the Forsaken (or just Leah, for short) is the American dramatist Augustin Daly’s 1862 play by about a Hungarian Jewish refugee woman who falls in love with an Austrian man named Rudolf, but is legally prohibited from staying in his village because of her religion.
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Leah the Forsaken Term Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the term Leah the Forsaken appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 5: Lotus Eaters
Bloom sees an ad for a performance of Leah tonight, with Mrs. Bandmann Palmer playing the title role. She played Hamlet the night before,...
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Episode 6: Hades
...the Queen’s Theatre. Bloom remembers tearing up Martha’s letter and wonders about the performance of Leah that night.
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Episode 15: Circe
...says he’s brought a Kosher snack and claims that he was busy at the play Leah all evening.
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Episode 17: Ithaca
...if the statues of Greek goddesses have genitals, and he didn’t get a ticket to Leah.
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...Kiernan’s bar, and his voyeuristic encounter with Gerty MacDowell. He mentions the current production of Leah and the novel Sweets of Sin. He especially focuses on how the “professor and author”...
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