This book is an overlooked masterpiece by one of Ireland's best-loved writers. In it Synge captured the idiosyncracies of everyday speech better, perhaps, than any other Irish writer, while his eye caught the details of a way of life that has long since disappeared. First published in 1910, it is now available as a paperback for the first time, complete with the evocative illustrations by Jack B. Yeats - universally regarded as twentieth-century Ireland's greatest painter.
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John Millington Synge, who was born in 1871, studied at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and then at the Sorbonne. With W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, he was a co-founder and later a director of the Abbey Theatre; as a playwright, he is best known for The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea. He died in 1909, shortly before his thirty-eighth birthday.
ISBN 9781897959459
CATEGORY Criticism/Review/Essays
IMAGES 8 greyscale line drawings
PAGE COUNT 224
DIMENSIONS 195 x 130 mm