Author Series 21
JM Synge (1871-1909)
* Irish playwright, poet, prose writer
* Key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
* Best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World
* In 1896 visited Italy and met WB Yeats, who encouraged him to live for a while in the Aran Islands (near the west coast of Ireland), and then return to Dublin and devote himself to creative work
* In 1896 he joined with Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory and George William Russell to form the Irish National Theatre Society, which later established the Abbey Theatre
* His writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and the essential paganism of their worldview.
* Suffered from Hodgkin's disease and died while working on his last play, Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Major Plays
* In the Shadow of the Glen (1903)
* The Riders to the Sea (1904)
* The Well of the Saints (1905)
* The Aran Islands (1907)
* The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
* The Tinker's Wedding (1908)
* Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910)
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