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The Short Plays of J. M. Synge

by J. M. Synge

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These one-act plays capture the world J. M. Synge found among the fishermen and cottagers of rural Ireland, whose speech he transcribed almost as music. Riders to the Sea condenses a mother's grief into a single unbearable hour as the ocean takes the last of her sons off the Aran Islands, while In the Shadow of the Glen turns a loveless Wicklow marriage into dark comedy when a husband fakes his own death to test his wife. Short, stark, and written in the rhythmic Anglo-Irish dialect Synge made famous, they helped define the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Revival. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available for readers and students of modern drama.

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J. M. Synge

John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was an Irish playwright and poet at the heart of the Irish Literary Revival and the Abbey Theatre. He built his plays from the speech and lives of country people in the west of Ireland, producing a small body of work that reshaped modern drama.