The Complete Plays


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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.




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


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Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.




The Complete Works of J.M. Synge


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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 Aran Islands


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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 Plays of J. M. Synge


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The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge


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Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.




The Playboy of the Western World


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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.