The Tinker's Wedding


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The Tinker's Wedding


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The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, whose main characters are Irish Tinkers. This absurd play follows an Irish wedding in which Sarah Casey convinces Michael Byrne to marry her after purchasing a local priest's services with ten shillings and a tin can. Excerpt: "We should not go to the theatre as we go to a chemist's, or a dram-shop, but as we go to a dinner, where the food we need is taken with pleasure and excitement."







'Tinkers'


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Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions.




The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge


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John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.




Synge


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J M Synge the Passionate Playwright


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The book is an attempt at intensely evaluating the works of J.M Synge, the Irish Literary revivalist and experimental dramatist. The author Dr Vayala has meticulously appraised the entire dramatic and poetic content of Synge`s writings and marvels at his innovative stage craft. ( Please refer for more details to the author`s preface of the work)




Delphi Complete Works of J. M. Synge (Illustrated)


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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. Synge's 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 Synge’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Synge’s 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 Synge’s 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 Synge’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles 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 Tinker’s 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 Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks




A Man who Does Not Exist


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A unique perspective on Yeats's and Synge's contributions to the literature of revolutionary Ireland