“A play that has the same atmosphere as a poem, and yet is full of life…” — J.M. Synge

“A play that has the same atmosphere as a poem, and yet is full of life and movement, is what I am trying to write.”

Describing his aim to unite poetic atmosphere with energetic action · Preface to The Playboy of the Western World

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…

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