In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by anyone who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. —Preface , The Playboy of the Western World J.M. Synge
J.M. Synge (Synge, John Millington) 1871–1909, Irish poet and dramatist, b. near Dublin, of Protestant parents. He was an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance. All of Synge’s plays reflect his experiences in the Aran Islands. Intense and poetic in style, his works depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk.—Continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: s from The American Heritage®
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The Playboy of the Western World . (1911)
The controversial play that ignited the “Playboy Riots.”
Synge, J.M., 56904 to 56915
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