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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. Synges
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 Synges
complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative
introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)


Description

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Synges 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 Synges 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 Synges literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres


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 Tinkers 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

Synge: author's other books


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J. M. SYNGE

(1871-1909)

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Complete Works of J. M. Synge

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Delphi Classics.

Delphi Classics, 2018.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

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The Plays

Newtown Villas Rathfarnham a Southside suburb of Dublin Synges birthplace - photo 14

Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, a Southside suburb of Dublin Synges birthplace

Main Street Rathfarnham c 1905 In the Shadow of the Glen A PLAY IN ONE - photo 15

Main Street, Rathfarnham, c. 1905

In the Shadow of the Glen

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A PLAY IN ONE ACT

Synges first play was performed at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on 8 October 1903. The drama is set in an isolated cottage in County Wicklow in that present year. In the Shadow of the Glen opens with a tramp seeking shelter in the isolated farmhouse of Daniel Burke, an elderly farmer. Dan appears to be dead and his young wife Nora is tending to his corpse. Nora goes out to find Michael, a youthful shepherd and Dan reveals to the tramp that his death is only a ruse. When Nora and Michael appear, he plays dead once more, but leaps up in protest when Michael proposes to Nora. Dan kicks Nora out to wander the roads and she leaves with the tramp, who promises her a life of freedom.

The drama is based on a folktale that Synge had collected on his first trip to the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland. It is a deceptively simple plot, though it is complex enough to contain most of the themes that the playwright would explore for the rest of his literary career. Firstly, the theme of tension between the basic human need for security and the equally essential urge for freedom is notable. The play contrasts Noras secure domestic existence against the tramps unrestrictive life. Though Noras marriage to Dan for his farm, livestock and money was her bid for security, it has caused her only misery and loneliness. Her leaving with the tramp rather than reconciling with her old husband or accepting the young lover Michael, signifies the importance of freedom, challenging modern views of marriage and a womans role in it.

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Synge as a young man

CONTENTS

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Molesworth Street, Dublin Molesworth Hall no longer stands

PERSONS

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D AN BURKE ( FARMER and herd) George Roberts

NORA BURKE (his wife) Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh

MICHEAL DARA (a young herd) P. J. Kelly

A TRAMP W. G. Fay

IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN

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S CENE. {T HE last cottage at the head of a long glen in County Wicklow.

Cottage kitchen; turf fire on the right; a bed near it against the wall with a body lying on it covered with a sheet. A door is at the other end of the room, with a low table near it, and stools, or wooden chairs. There are a couple of glasses on the table, and a bottle of whisky, as if for a wake, with two cups, a teapot, and a home-made cake. There is another small door near the bed. Nora Burke is moving about the room, settling a few things, and lighting candles on the table, looking now and then at the bed with an uneasy look. Some one knocks softly at the door. She takes up a stocking with money from the table and puts it in her pocket. Then she opens the door.}

TRAMP {Outside.} Good evening to you, lady of the house.

NORA Good evening, kindly stranger, its a wild night, God help you, to be out in the rain falling.

TRAMP It is, surely, and I walking to Brittas from the Aughrim fair.

NORA Is it walking on your feet, stranger?

TRAMP On my two feet, lady of the house, and when I saw the light below I thought maybe if youd a sup of new milk and a quiet decent corner where a man could sleep {he looks in past her and sees the dead man.} The Lord have mercy on us all!

NORA It doesnt matter anyway, stranger, come in out of the rain.

TRAMP {Coming in slowly and going towards the bed.} Is it departed he is?

NORA It is, stranger. Hes after dying on me, God forgive him, and there I am now with a hundred sheep beyond on the hills, and no turf drawn for the winter.

TRAMP {Looking closely at the dead man.} Its a queer look is on him for a man thats dead.

NORA {Half-humorously.} He was always queer, stranger, and I suppose them thats queer and they living men will be queer bodies after.

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