Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408145065
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Synge, who came from a middle-class Protestant family near Dublin, created a huge scandal at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where The Playboy was staged in 1907, because its audience did not take kindly to a comedy that seemed to portray the Irish as violent, superstitious sots and swaggerers. Synge relied on and at the same time mocked the Irish dramatic movement and its ambition to create realistic drama that was also poetically beautiful. The play is set 'near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo'. On the first day, a stranger arrives and declares that he is on the run because he has killed his father - for this, the villagers turn him into a hero. On the second day, however, his father arrives walking wounded, and although Christy knocks him down with a spade, his father seems impossible to kill. The set off together, still quarrelling, and the villagers are bereft of their excitement.
Author: Seán Hewitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606662
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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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 This book builds on this re-assessment, undertaking a full systematic exploration of Synge's published and unpublished works.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.
Author: Dr. Vayala Vasudevan Pillai
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482852233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The book is an attempt at intensely evaluating the works of J.M Synge, the Irish Literary revivalist and experimental dramatist. The author Dr Vayala has meticulously appraised the entire dramatic and poetic content of Synge`s writings and marvels at his innovative stage craft. ( Please refer for more details to the author`s preface of the work)
Author: Edward Halim Mikhail
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349022764
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: P. J. Mathews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982483X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Peter K. Garrett
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Studies of the form and content of Joyce's Dubliners and its effect on modern poetry and prose.
Author: Adrian Fraser
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781904505068
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Essays on the production and performances of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World including a study of the acclaimed Druid production directed by Garry Hynes.
Author: Nicholas Grene
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349076724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Author: Gale Research Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
