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Product Description: Engrossing study of John Millington's Synge's evolution as a playwright, his relationship with Molly Allgood and his influence on Irish and international playwrights.

Product Description: George Bernard Shaw has always been regarded as a political provocateur and socialist with ideas that reflected a complicated public philosophy. Scholarship abounds on Shaw’s politics, but Nelson Ritschel’s compelling study is the first to explore how Shaw’s presence in Irish radical debate manifested itself not only through his direct contributions but also through the way he and his efforts were engaged by others--most notably by the socially liberal dramatist J...read more

Features three classic plays--In the Shadow ot the Glen, Riders to the Sea, and The Playboy of the Western World--by the cofounder of the Abbey Theater and one of Ireland's greatest playwrights who captured the Irish spirit in his unforgettable characters and unique language. Reissue.

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Product Description: Compares three pairs of plays by the Irish playwright J.M. Synge and the Chinese playwright Cao Yu, discussing some provocative dramaturgical similarities as well as profound aesthetic differences and uncovering instances of Cao Yu's appropriation of Western literary models previously unrecognized...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Three compelling short plays that reveal our fascination with death. Includes: Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen by J. M. Synge and Purgatory by W. B. Yeats. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Though J. M. Synge is considered a major figure of Irish drama and an important canonical playwright, he is the subject of fewer and fewer books and conference sessions. In this volume, chapters by expert contributors confront the possibility that Synge's reputation may not be standing the test of time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This edition includes "The Shadow of the Glen", "Riders to the Sea" and four other plays, in addition to the "Playboy of the Western World". Also included are "Poems and Translations" and the complete text of "The Aran Islands", Synge's account of life off the Western coast of Ireland...read more

A portrait of Irish author J. M. Synge covers his youth under the influences of evangelical Protestantism, interest in the occult, musical inclinations, and literary achievements, including such plays as Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World.

Product Description: "A man who does not exist" is about just that- the Irish peasant as an imaginative construct. Yeats and Synge were two of the writers who established the terms of an argument that has affected all subsequent Irish politics as well as literature...read more