Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840221510
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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 Complete Works of J.M. Synge
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840221510
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840221510
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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 Complete Works of John M. Synge
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494121648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494121648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
The Aran Islands
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aran Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aran Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge
Author: P. J. Mathews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.
The Complete Plays
Author: John M. Synge
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307783960
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307783960
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674528345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674528345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
J. M. Synge
Author: Seán Hewitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198862091
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198862091
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
In the Shadow of the Glen
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge
Author: Hélène Lecossois
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.
A Man who Does Not Exist
Author: Deborah Fleming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105816
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A unique perspective on Yeats's and Synge's contributions to the literature of revolutionary Ireland
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105816
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A unique perspective on Yeats's and Synge's contributions to the literature of revolutionary Ireland