The Aran Islands

The Aran Islands PDF Author: John Millington Synge
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Category : Aran Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The Aran Islands

The Aran Islands PDF Author: John Millington Synge
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Category : Aran Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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J. M. Synge

J. M. Synge PDF Author: Seán Hewitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198862091
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge's plays and prose works, tracing his journey from an early Romanticism to a later, more combative modernism.

The Complete Works of J.M. Synge

The Complete Works of J.M. Synge PDF Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840221510
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Collects all of Synge's published plays, including The Playboy of The Western World, along with his Poetry and Translations, and the prose works that detail his travels in The Aran Islands, In Wicklow, In Kerry and In Connemara.

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge PDF Author: P. J. Mathews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.

The Complete Plays

The Complete Plays PDF Author: John M. Synge
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307783960
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This volume includes the complete texts of all the plays by J.M. Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century.

Letters to Molly

Letters to Molly PDF Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674528345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease, of which he was to die in three years. Synge had already achieved recognition as a playwright--translations of two of his plays had been performed in Berlin and Prague--and he was codirector, with Yeats and Lady Gregory, of the Irish National Theatre Society. Molly had started her acting career the year before, in the newly opened Abbey Theatre, with a walk-on part in Synge's Well of the Saints. She had been promoted from crowd scenes to bit parts to lead roles in Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen. She was still only a member of the company, however, while Synge was a director, whose codirectors disapproved of fraternization. Synge and Molly also faced the disapproval of two widowed mothers. Barring an occasional holiday trip or company road tour, they could seldom be alone together, except on secret afternoon meetings for long walks in the country. Hence their hundreds of letters. Molly's letters do not survive; they apparently were destroyed when Synge died. But his letters convey her mercurial charm, her openness, her love of life, her impulsiveness, and her temper--as violent as his own. What they convey of him (when he is not reproving her or remonstrating with her, as he does in the early months of their relationship) is the love of nature, the poetic language, the bittersweet irony, the elemental quality of emotion, that we know from the plays. His concern for his craft is seen as he struggles with The Playboy. ("Parts of it are not structurally strong or good. I have been all this time trying to get over weak situations by strong writing, but now I find it won't do, and I am at my wit's end.") Synge was quite unperturbed by the violent outrage and near-riots the play provoked. ("Now we'll be talked about. We're an event in the history of the Irish stage," he wrote cheerily.) As his illness progresses, following operations in 1907 and 1908, there is great poignancy in the gradual abating of references to marriage plans and in the shift of salutation from "Dearest Changeling" to "My dearest child." After Synge's death his friends and biographers discreetly avoided mention of Molly, who under her stage name of Maire O'Neill became one of the leading actresses of the Irish theater and lived until 1952. His letters to her have not been published before, except for the few quoted in Greene and Stephens' 1959 biography. A primary source for the study of Synge and the Irish theater movement, the letters include poems inspired by Molly and extensive information about Abbey Theatre business. In addition to a biographical introduction, Ann Saddlemyer has included a map of the Wicklow and Dublin areas and numerous photographs of both Synge and Molly.

In the Shadow of the Glen

In the Shadow of the Glen PDF Author: John Millington Synge
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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J.M. Synge, Queens

J.M. Synge, Queens PDF Author: John Millington Synge
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ISBN: 9780851054445
Category : Glass painting and staining
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Nine panels of stained glass created by Harry Clarke to illustrate poems of J.M. Synge; Queens by J.M. Synge was written about 1902 and first published in POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS.

Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge

Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge PDF Author: Hélène Lecossois
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.

J. M. Synge

J. M. Synge PDF Author: Seán Hewitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606662
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This book is a complete re-assessment of the works of J.M. Synge, one of Ireland's major playwrights. The book offers the first complete consideration of all of Synge's major plays and prose works in nearly 30 years, drawing on extensive archival research to offer innovative new readings. Much work has been done in recent years to uncover Synge's modernity and to emphasise his political consciousness. This book builds on this re-assessment, undertaking a full systematic exploration of Synge's published and unpublished works. Tracing his journey from an early Romanticism through to the more combative modernism of his later work, the book's innovative methodology treats text as process, and considers Synge's reading materials, his drafts, letters, diaries, and journalism, turning up exciting and unexpected revelations. Thus, Synge's engagement with occultism, pantheism, socialism, Darwinism, and even a late reaction against eugenic nationalisms, are all brought into the critical discussion. Breaking new ground in ascertaining the tenets of Synge's spirituality, and his aesthetic and political idealization of harmony with nature, the book also builds on new work in modernist studies, arguing that Synge can be understood as a leftist modernist, exhibiting many of the key concerns of early modernism, but routing them through a socialist politics. Thus, this book is valuable not only to considerations of Synge and the Irish Revival, but also to modernist studies more broadly.