John Millington Synge (1871–1909)
Auteur van The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays
Over de Auteur
After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Synge left for Europe to write poetry. If W. B. Yeats had not discovered him in Paris and persuaded him to return to Ireland and absorb its native traditions, the Irish renaissance might have lost its best playwright. As it was, Synge's poetry of toon meer Celtic romanticism was rather more tempered with a European realism than Yeats and his renaissance had anticipated. Yeats sent Synge to the West of Ireland to get to know the peasants there. The result was, in addition to the journal The Aran Islands (1907), two short plays for the Abbey: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), in which a comic resurrection interrupts a widow's marriage bargaining, and Riders to the Sea (1904), about a mother's loss of her last son, a perfect condensed tragedy and probably the finest one-act play. The poorly received The Well of the Saints (1905), whose characters vehemently reject reality for comfortable illusion, offered the Abbey audience a warning of what was to come. This was Synge's masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World (1907), which touched off rioting at the theater. The playboy is Christy Mahon, a lout who becomes a hero among the Mayo peasantry when he boasts he has murdered his father. Satire on Irish romanticism conceals a parable of the poet's development and estrangement from his public. But Dublin nationalists heard only the people slandered, and Dublin prudery heard only the forbidden word "shifts" on Christy's lips. Playboy was the last play Synge saw staged. He died of cancer at age 37, never having completed Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), his only work in the Celtic legendary mode. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van John Millington Synge
Letters to Molly: John Millington Synge to Maire O'Neill, 1906-1909 (Belknap Press) (1971) 9 exemplaren
Plays By John M. Synge. The Playboy Of The Western World, The Tinker's Wedding, The Shadow Of The Glen. (1929) 9 exemplaren
The works of John M. Synge 7 exemplaren
Plays By John M. Synge. Riders to the Sea, Deirdre of the Sorrows, The Well of the Saints (1941) 5 exemplaren
Uaigneas an Ghleanna agus Chun na Farraige Sios 5 exemplaren
My wallet of photographs. The collected photographs of i.e. taken by J. M. Synge, arranged and introduced by Lilo… (1971) 4 exemplaren
Genets cap a la mar. Les bodes del llauner (Riders to the Sea. The Tinker's Wedding) (1995) 3 exemplaren
Collected Plays: The Shadow Of The Glen; Riders To The Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of The Saints; The… 2 exemplaren
The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea 2 exemplaren
STÜCKE. Die Nebelschlucht. Reiter zum Meer. Die Kesselflickerhochzeit. Der Held der westlichen Welt. 2 exemplaren
Some Sonnets from "Laura In Death" After the Italian of Francesco Petrarch. Intr (1971) 2 exemplaren
Thre 2 exemplaren
Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats. Limited Edition. Cuala Press (1971) 2 exemplaren
Two plays 1 exemplaar
Four Plays and the Aran Islands 1 exemplaar
La fonte dei santi: Cavalcata a Mare. (riders to the sea). Traduzione [dall'inglese] di Carlo Linati 1 exemplaar
Il furfantello dell'Ovest: e altri drammi 1 exemplaar
Drammi irlandesi 1 exemplaar
Le isole di Aran 1 exemplaar
The Works Of John M. Synge ...: The Playboy Of The Western World. Deirdre Of The Sorrows. Poems. Translations (2018) 1 exemplaar
Poem and translations / by John M. Synge 1 exemplaar
Druid Theatre Company - DruidSynge: The Plays Of John Millington Synge (booklet and 2 DVDs) (2006) 1 exemplaar
Hjälten på den gröna ön 1 exemplaar
Cavaliers à la mer 1 exemplaar
Three Irish Plays 1 exemplaar
With Petrarch : twelve sonnets 1 exemplaar
Theatrum Mundi: Theater aus England und Irland 1 exemplaar
Works 1 exemplaar
The Well of the Saints: Epitaph Under Ether 1 exemplaar
Poetry & Drama 1 exemplaar
Collected plays by John M. Synge 1 exemplaar
ديدري فتاة الأحزان 1 exemplaar
Collected Plays and Poems and the Aran Islands 1 exemplaar
When the Moon Has Set 1 exemplaar
Le baladin du monde occidental. 1 exemplaar
DruidSynge: The Plays of John Millington Synge — Playwright — 1 exemplaar
The playboy of the western world 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Synge, John Millington
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Synge, J.M.
- Geboortedatum
- 1871-04-16
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1909-03-24
- Graflocatie
- Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
- Geslacht
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- Ireland
- Geboorteplaats
- Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Dublin, Ireland
- Woonplaatsen
- Dublin, Ireland
Aran Islands, Ireland - Opleiding
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Beroepen
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director (Abbey Theatre)
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- Abbey Theatre
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The Playboy of the Western World door John Millington Synge
I admit, I struggle to see the significance. On the other hand, the writing of the Irish Language is beautiful.
This was not at all what I was expecting from the title. I can see that it would be funnier on stage, and the Irish dialect and vocabulary would really support the 'plot', but I mainly found it tiresome. It was also quite predictable, apart from the final twist, which I really didn't see coming.
Really 3½ stars and 4 stars for the full cast LibriVox recording (the last play in a collection of one act plays found here).
I read this extremely short one act play (contained in the book [b:Five Great Modern Irish Plays|3743896|Five Great Modern Irish Plays|George Jean Nathan|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3787724]) while listening to the LibriVox recording. The Irish voices of the cast helped bring the play to life for me. The play itself is very sad, about a woman wholoses her last remaining son to an accidental drowning just the day after another son's body has been identified. …
This play stands up well to reading (as opposed to seeing a performance).… (meer)
I read this extremely short one act play (contained in the book [b:Five Great Modern Irish Plays|3743896|Five Great Modern Irish Plays|George Jean Nathan|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3787724]) while listening to the LibriVox recording. The Irish voices of the cast helped bring the play to life for me. The play itself is very sad, about a woman who
This play stands up well to reading (as opposed to seeing a performance).… (meer)
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