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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. John Millington Synge was born on April 16, 1871, in R...

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 years of his life. Although Synge's early career showe...

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 years of his life. Although Synge's early career showe...

The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge John Millington Synge was born in 1871, to an Irish Protestant family in Rathfarnham, near Dublin. As a young man, he left Ireland for the Continent and spent several years in Germany and France,...

The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish Protestant playwright J. M. Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on January 26, 1907.[1] It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house -- a shebeen, or illicit...

The four most promising words in any language are "Once upon a time .... " Unless, that is, we use just two, "One day .... " And this much I know. One day, Martin McDonagh sat down someplace and wrote a fantastic play that's all...

The four most promising words in any language are "Once upon a time .... " Unless, that is, we use just two, "One day .... " And this much I know. One day, Martin McDonagh sat down someplace and wrote a fantastic play that's all...

When it comes to the field of Democratic Presidential hopefuls, Chris Dodd has clearly decided that there is still a niche to be filled by someone like him. While he thinks that Hillary Clinton can be President, he also notes that she is still in...

When it comes to the field of Democratic Presidential hopefuls, Chris Dodd has clearly decided that there is still a niche to be filled by someone like him. While he thinks that Hillary Clinton can be President, he also notes that she is still...

In the following essay, Cairns and Richards argue that the nationalist ideology and mythologized nostalgia that produced the Irish Literary Revival to some extent “scripted” the ways in which the early twentieth-century Dublin audience responded to Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.

"Riders to The Sea" and "The Playboy of the Western World" represent opposite poles of the work of Irish playwright J.M. Syng. "Riders to the Sea," a play depicting the struggles of those who work with and on the sea, displays Syng's patriotism toward his home country. On the other hand, "The Playboy of the Western World" is a harsh, often brutal satire of Irish patriarchal society and Irish manhood.