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Loading... The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy ... Deirdre of the Sorrows (World's Classics) (edition 1995)by J. M. Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (Editor)
Work InformationThe Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by John Millington Synge
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. When I was reading this whole volume of plays while in my early 20s, I believe the dramatic quality was lost on me. It would have been better for me to have seen the plays live. I will keep my eyes open for any productions coming up in my local area. But from what little I know about the history of 20th Century Drama and John Synge's place in it, and what I can remember of the texts themselves. John Synge is certainly a very good playwright. Must get to the theatre more often, as my work virtual rules out this type of activity. I can't remember the funny parts 25 years later, but I am sure they are in there somehwere. These are wonderful plays by one of Ireland's greatist writers. The Playboy of the Western World alone is worth reading. Remember when you read it that this play was a scandal when first produced and in the 1920's there were riots in Dublin. Add this masterpiece to your 'banned books list". I had of course heard of this play but discovered it in 2004 when we were in Dublin and it was playing at the National Theatre. The production was brilliant and the play was so funny and true. My husband laughed so much that we had to go to the bookstore the next day and he bought this book. He read the play and laughed some more. Our children who were with us also loved it . We were fortunate that at the same time we were able to see a production of a recent play by Colm Toibin that was about bringing "Playboy" to the stage. Again, fascinating. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesContainsPlays By John M. Synge. Riders to the Sea, Deirdre of the Sorrows, The Well of the Saints by John M. Synge Plays By John M. Synge. The Playboy Of The Western World, The Tinker's Wedding, The Shadow Of The Glen. by John M. Synge
A re-issue of the collected plays by one of Ireland's most celebrated writers In The Shadow of the Glen an old man tests his wife's commitment by feigning death; Riders to the Sea is inspired by Synge's stay on the Aran Islands and shadows the death of a way of life as a mother sees her sons die before her eyes; The Tinker's Wedding is about a woman's desire for marriage to her tinker husband and is full of Synge's fascination for the tinker breed who had freed themselves from govenment and conventions while giving way to instincts of sexual promsicuity, fighting and drinking; The Well of Saints is set near a holy well known for its cures of blindness and epilepsy and centres on the figure of Martin Doul, who is blind and has two illusions - the first, that he and his wife Mary are a handsome couple and the second, that the visible world is full of wonder and delight; The Playboy of the Western World, in which a young man lies about the death of his father offended audiences when first produced in 1907 on account of its 'immodest' references to Irish womanhood and aroused a prolonged and bitter controversy, which lasted until the author's death in 1909; Deirdre of the Sorrows is Synge's last play, published posthumously and tells the story of a young and beautiful girl, destined to be the bride of an ageing king who elopes with a younger man and after the magical seven years returns only to bring with her the destruction of a city. No library descriptions found. |
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