Riders to the Sea is a play written by John Millington Synge and performed for the first time in 1904. A play consisting of just one act, it was performed in Dublin at the Molesworth Hall by four main characters and several supporting cast members. In 1911, Edward J. O’Brien added an introduction extolling that many believed this was Synge's single greatest play written, and likely documents his own experiences based on his second visit to the Aran Islands.
The Irish dramatist Edmund John Millington Synge (1871-1909), one of the greatest playwrights of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, made the folklore and dialect of the Irish peasantry the subject of his plays.J...
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J. M. Synge is the most highly regarded dramatist of the modern Irish literary movement. His reputation as a major twentieth-century playwright was established by six plays, written in the last seven ...
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John Millington Synge is one of the foremost dramatists of the twentieth century, but his compositions in verse are hardly as recognized. Yet Synge, whose work is practically synonymous with the Irish...
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Biography EssayJ. M. Synge is the most highly regarded dramatist of the modern Irish literary movement. His reputation as a major twentieth-century playwright was established by six plays, written in ...
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Edmund John Millington Synge
(Edmund) J(ohn) M(illington) Synge