The Cambridge companion to J.M. Synge / edited by P.J. Mathews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathews, P. J. (Patrick J.), 1969- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909--Criticism and interpretation.

Synge, J. M.

Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909.

Criticism and interpretation.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

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PDF

Summary:

John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.

Contents:

pt. 1. The Synge texts. Re-thinking Synge / P.J. Mathews

The Shadow of the glen and Riders to the sea / Oona Frawley

The playboy of the western world / Shaun Richards

The well of the saints and The tinker's wedding / Mary Burke

The Aran Islands and the travel essays / Elaine Sisson

Deirdre of the sorrows / Declan Kiberd

part 2. Theorising Synge. J.M. Synge: European encounters / Ben Levitas

Synge and the Irish language / Alan Titley

Synge and gender / Susan Cannon Harris

Postcolonial Synge / C.L. Innes

Synge and Irish modernism / Greogry Dobbins

part 3. Synge on stage. Synge in performance / Nicholas Grene

J.M. Synge in America / Brenda Murphy

Synge and contemporary Irish drama / Anthony Roche

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ISBN:

9781139002721

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