“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or…” — J.M. Synge

“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple, and there should be no writing that is not a pleasure to the ear.”

Emphasising the sensual and musical quality of dramatic language · Preface to The Playboy of the Western World

J.M. Synge

About J.M. Synge

16 April 1871–24 March 1909

In the pantheon of Irish literature, few figures cast as long a shadow as John Millington Synge, a man who compressed into his brief thirty-seven years a literary output that would reshape the very notion of Irish dramatic art. Born on April 16, 1871, into the comfortable Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry of County…

More by J.M. Synge