John Millington Synge

Presents two dramas set on the Aran Islands and off the western coast of Ireland.

The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea

The Playboy Of The Western World

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.

The Complete Plays of John M. Synge

Sir Edgar John Forsdyke

Greece Before Homer

Excerpt from The Tinker's Wedding: A Comedy in Two Acts The drama is made serious - in the French sense of the word - not by the degree in which it is taken up with problems that are serious in themselves, but by the degree in which it gives the nourishment, not very easy to define, on which our imaginations live. We should not go to the theatre as we go to a Chemist's, or a dram-shop, but as we go to a dinner, where the food we need is taken with pleasure and excitement. This was nearly always so in Spain and England and France when the drama was at its richest - the infancy and decay of the drama tend to be didactic - but in these days the playhouse is too often stocked with the drugs of many seedy problems, or with the absinthe or vermouth of the last musical comedy.vi preface. The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. Analysts with their problems, and teachers with their systems, are soon as old-fashioned as the pharmacopoeia of Galen, look at Ibsen and the Germans - but the best plays of Ben Jonson and Moliere can no more go out of fashion than the black berries on the hedges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Comedy in Two Acts (Classic Reprint)

The Tinker's Wedding

And what way will yourself live from this day, with none to care for you? What is it you'll have now but a black life, Daniel Burke, and it's not long I'm telling you, till you'll be lying again under that sheet, and you dead surely.

In the Shadow of the Glen

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I'll give you a riddle, Deirdre: Why isn't my father as ugly and old as Conchubor? You've no answer? . . . . It's because Naisi killed him.

Deirdre of the Sorrows

Synge was one of the key dramatists in the world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers all of Synge's plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The introduction places him in the context of the Irish literary movement.

The Shadow of the Glen ; The Tinker's Wedding ; The Well of the Saints ; The Playboy of the Western World ; Deirdre of the Sorrows

Riders to the Sea

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.

Plays, Prose and Poetry

The Complete Works of J.M. Synge

"The Playboy of the Western World" from John Millington Synge. Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore (1871-1909).

The Playboy of the Western World

Harry Clarke

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.

J.M. Synge, Queens

The Aran Islands

Maire O'Neill

The collected letters of the Irish playwright to his beloved Molly trace their romance until his early death

John Millington Synge

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