The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays by Jm Synge

The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays by Jm Synge

A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the Devil. The sleepy parish of Nyadnanave sees a vision of a cockerel that dares the inhabitants to break the shackles of Church and State.

J.M. Synge was born in 1871. 1n 1895 he went to Paris and in the following year met W. B. Yeats and consequently joined the Irish League. He was first a literary adviser and then a director of the Abbey Theatre, and his own plays appeared in repertory. He died in 1909.

Sean O'Casey was born in Dublin in 1880. In 1926 he moved to England. He discouraged any professional performances of his plays in Ireland after the Archbishop of Dublin refused to inaugurate the Dublin festival if his play The Drums of Father Ned (1958) was included. He died in 1964.

W. B. Yeats, the irish dramatist, poet, autobiographer, critic and occult philosopher, was born in 1865. At the age of nineteen he attended an art school in Dublin, but already his central interest was in writing. Towards the end of his life he enjoyed many honours, including the Nobel Prize and membership of the Irish Senate. He died in France in 1939.

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ISBN 13	9780140188783
ISBN 10	0140188789
Title	The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays
Author	Jm Synge
Series	Classic 20th-Century Penguin Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2009-07-30
Number of pages	224
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