The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

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John Millington Synge

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J(ohn) M(illington) Synge's The Playboy of the Western World caused riots during its opening week in Dublin in 1907. Inspired by his close observations of the inhabitants of the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland, Synge based the play on a historical incident. His realistic yet poetic depiction of that incident and the manners and mores of Irish life angered many who thought the play indecent and guilty of promoting...

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The Playboy of the Western World

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The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge John Millington Synge was born in 1871, to an Irish Protestant family in Rathfarnham, near Dublin. As a young man, he left Ireland for the ... Read more

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Edmund John Millington Synge

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The Irish dramatist Edmund John Millington Synge (1871-1909), one of the greatest playwrights of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, made the folklore and dialect of the Irish peasantry the subject of his plays.J... Read more

(Edmund) J(ohn) M(illington) Synge

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J. M. Synge is the most highly regarded dramatist of the modern Irish literary movement. His reputation as a major twentieth-century playwright was established by six plays, written in the last seven ... Read more

(Edmund) J(ohn) M(illington) Synge

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John Millington Synge is one of the foremost dramatists of the twentieth century, but his compositions in verse are hardly as recognized. Yet Synge, whose work is practically synonymous with the Irish... Read more

Edmund John Millington Synge

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Biography EssayJ. M. Synge is the most highly regarded dramatist of the modern Irish literary movement. His reputation as a major twentieth-century playwright was established by six plays, written in ... Read more

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Critical Essay by David Cairns and Shaun Richards

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Riders to The Sea and The Playboy of the Western World in a way are two opposite poles of Syng's literary work, as the first one represents him as a great patriot and the other as a cruel realistic sa... Read more

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