The Complete Works of J.M. Synge

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Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840221510
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of J.M. Synge written by John Millington Synge and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521110106
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge written by P. J. Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.

The Complete Works of John M. Synge

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ISBN 13 : 9781494121648
Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of John M. Synge written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.

The Aran Islands

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Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book The Aran Islands written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's prospectus for the limited edition (150 copies), large paper edition of Synge's work. The only book published by Maunsel to include hand-colouring of an artist's work.

The Complete Plays

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307783960
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Plays written by John M. Synge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674528345
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Letters to Molly written by John Millington Synge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192606662
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis J. M. Synge by : Seán Hewitt

Download or read book J. M. Synge written by Seán Hewitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Man who Does Not Exist

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472105816
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis A Man who Does Not Exist by : Deborah Fleming

Download or read book A Man who Does Not Exist written by Deborah Fleming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique perspective on Yeats's and Synge's contributions to the literature of revolutionary Ireland

In the Shadow of the Glen

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Glen written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fool of the Family

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814756522
Total Pages : 499 pages
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Download or read book Fool of the Family written by W. J. Mc Cormack and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soulmate of James Joyce, J. M. Synge (1871-1909) is famous as the author of Playboy of the Western World, which provoked riots at its Dublin premiere in 1907. But the man himself, his peculiar religious background, and little-investigated death, have, until now, remained in the shadows. W. J. McCormack here recreates the complex religious and social environment in which Synge refined his talents as a writer. Placing Synge's life firmly in the context of the cultural revolution unfolding in Europe, this fresh and lively account will stand as the authoritative biography of this great writer.

Poems and Translations

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Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book Poems and Translations written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riders to the Sea

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523433780
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Riders to the Sea written by John Millington Synge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riders to the Sea A Play in One Act By J. M. Synge Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theater Society. A one-act tragedy, the play is set in the Aran Island, Inishmaan, and like all of Synge's plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal but relentless cruelty of the sea. It must have been on Synge's second visit to the Aran Islands that he had the experience out of which was wrought what many believe to be his greatest play. The scene of "Riders to the Sea" is laid in a cottage on Inishmaan, the middle and most interesting island of the Aran group. While Synge was on Inishmaan, the story came to him of a man whose body had been washed up on the far away coast of Donegal, and who, by reason of certain peculiarities of dress, was suspected to be from the island. In due course, he was recognised as a native of Inishmaan, in exactly the manner described in the play, and perhaps one of the most poignantly vivid passages in Synge's book on "The Aran Islands" relates the incident of his burial. The other element in the story which Synge introduces into the play is equally true. Many tales of "second sight" are to be heard among Celtic races. In fact, they are so common as to arouse little or no wonder in the minds of the people. It is just such a tale, which there seems no valid reason for doubting, that Synge heard, and that gave the title, "Riders to the Sea", to his play. It is the dramatist's high distinction that he has simply taken the materials which lay ready to his hand, and by the power of sympathy woven them, with little modification, into a tragedy which, for dramatic irony and noble pity, has no equal among its contemporaries. Great tragedy, it is frequently claimed with some show of justice, has perforce departed with the advance of modern life and its complicated tangle of interests and creature comforts. A highly developed civilisation, with its attendant specialisation of culture, tends ever to lose sight of those elemental forces, those primal emotions, naked to wind and sky, which are the stuff from which great drama is wrought by the artist, but which, as it would seem, are rapidly departing from us. It is only in the far places, where solitary communion may be had with the elements, that this dynamic life is still to be found continuously, and it is accordingly thither that the dramatist, who would deal with spiritual life disengaged from the environment of an intellectual maze, must go for that experience which will beget in him inspiration for his art. The Aran Islands from which Synge gained his inspiration are rapidly losing that sense of isolation and self-dependence, which has hitherto been their rare distinction, and which furnished the motivation for Synge's masterpiece. Whether or not Synge finds a successor, it is none the less true that in English dramatic literature "Riders to the Sea" has an historic value which it would be difficult to over-estimate in its accomplishment and its possibilities. A writer in The Manchester Guardian shortly after Synge's death phrased it rightly when he wrote that it is "the tragic masterpiece of our language in our time; wherever it has been played in Europe from Galway to Prague, it has made the word tragedy mean something more profoundly stirring and cleansing to the spirit than it did."

Delphi Complete Works of J. M. Synge (Illustrated)

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Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786561263
Total Pages : 1707 pages
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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of J. M. Synge (Illustrated) written by J. M. Synge and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 1707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwright J. M. Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Today he is best known for his controversial play ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run. Synge's writings are chiefly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. He was a poetic dramatist of great power, whose modern plays are celebrated for their sophisticated craftsmanship. For the first time in digital publishing, this eBook presents Synge’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Synge’s life and works * Concise introductions to the plays * All 6 plays, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare poetry available in no other collection * Includes Synge’s prose, featuring many essays and reviews– available in no other collection * Features two biographies, including Yeats’ seminal work ‘Synge and the Ireland of His Time’ – discover Synge’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Plays In the Shadow of the Glen Riders to the Sea The Well of the Saints The Playboy of the Western World The Tinker’s Wedding Deirdre of the Sorrows The Poetry Collections Collected Poems The Prose The Aran Islands In Wicklow and West Kerry Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews The Biographies Synge and the Ireland of His Time by W. B. Yeats Brief Biography of John Millington Synge by William Kirkpatrick Magee Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487793
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge written by Hélène Lecossois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.

The Well of the Saints

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Publisher : Standard Ebooks
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book The Well of the Saints written by J. M. Synge and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-03-15T16:04:01Z with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Well of the Saints opens with the arrival of a wandering holy man and his can of water from a remote holy well to a small Irish village, promising to restore the sight of the blind beggars who live by the crossroads there. Synge uses this simple story to expose and ridicule the pretensions and hypocrisies of every character in the story—the holy, the lowly, and the respectable alike. His ruthless and irreverent comedy—and especially his treatment of the holy man, and by implication, the Catholic Church—enraged contemporary critics. This same satirical style is what would later lead to riots in Dublin and New York on the premiere of his next play, The Playboy of the Western World. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Synge and Edwardian Ireland

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199609888
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Synge and Edwardian Ireland written by Brian Cliff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses J.M. Synge's plays, prose, and photography to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland. By emphasizing less familiar contexts, including the rise of a local celebrity culture, the arts and crafts movement, and Irish classical music, it shows how Irish folk culture intersected with the new networks of mass communication.

The Playboy of the Western World

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Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book The Playboy of the Western World written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy in three acts by J.M. Synge, published and produced in 1907. It is a masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance. This most famous of Synge's works fused the patois of ordinary Irish villagers with Synge's sophisticated rhetoric and enraged Irish playgoers with its satire of Irish braggadocio. The play follows the mercurial rise and fall of the character Christy Mahon, whose self-reported murder of his father earns him much admiration until his father shows up alive and in pursuit of his cowardly son. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.