Complete Works of J.M. Synge

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)

Description

* 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

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