Synge, John Millington
Synge, John Millington (1871–1909) Irish dramatist who was important in the renaissance of
Irish literature. Synge was one of the organizers of the
Abbey Theatre in 1904, and his comedy
The Playboy of the Western World (1907) caused a riot when first performed.
Riders to the Sea (1904) is a paean to the spirit of the Aran islanders. Other works include
The Well of the Saints (1905), and
Deidre of the Sorrows (1910).
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DruidSynge: The Plays of John Millington Synge
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 7/19/2006; ; 700+ words
; DruidSynge: The Plays of John Millington Synge Gerald W. Lynch Theater John Joy College 899 Tenth Avenue 212-721...theater. The complete dramatic works of John Millington Synge, performed by the same company on the same...
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New York City: Synge our contemporary.(John Millington Synge )
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...may have been the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge (1871-1909) who first patented...notes the novelist Anne Enright in Synge: A Celebration. "I only mention...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his short life, Synge left behind only a handful of plays...
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'PLAYBOY' STILL ABLE TO BRIGHTEN THEATER; HANGAR THEATRE'S STAGING OF JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE PLAY IS SURPRISING AND MOVING.(Local)(Theater review)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 8/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...Theatre's wonderful production of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western...end of act one, an old farmer (John Michalski) shows up at the door...Christy's stock falls, and in Synge's action-filled second act...
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Transplanting the work of "that rooted man": the reception of John Millington Synge's drama in Hungary.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; During John Millington Synge's lifetime (1871-1909) Hungary was part of a so-called dual...comparison with Christy Mahon's difference from the Mayo people in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (1907). Hungarian artists at...
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Fathers and sons in Synge's the Playboy of the Western World.(Irish writer John Millington Synge)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...1907 of Playboy has been attributed to Synge's slanderous portrayal of the Irish and...fundamentally pagan people [the Mayoites] that Synge does not allow him to appear on the stage...and loneliness, feelings that express Synge's own unhappy love affair with a young...
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Wilde, Synge & Orpen.(Dublin journal)(Oscar Wilde, John Millington Synge, William Orpen)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Old Dublin is hard to locate these days--that city Joyce, Sean O'Casey, Flann O'Brien, and Patrick Kavanagh wrote about, with its tobacco-brown pubs, drizzle, and the sound of the Angelus on the radio every day at noon and six p.m. The Angelus is still rung on RTE, but the old, serious, repressed
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How Synge set the stage for Beckett
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/18/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Family: A Life of JM Synge By WJ McCormack Weidenfeld...great Irish playwright John Millington Synge, a notoriously elusive...emotion, extended to Synge amputating one christian...contracting the following two - John Millington - to frugal initials...
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Books: More misfit than playboy File J M Synge under "biographer's nightmare", decides John Walsh; Fool of the Family By W J McCormack WEIDENFELD pounds 25
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/12/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...over a century ago, John Millington Synge set foot on the Aran...barrister, John Hatch Synge, who died a year after John's birth. The family...doctrinaire, was the air John Millington breathed. His mother...belief, that led Synge towards his dramas...
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Irish & Classical celebrates works of John Synge
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 7/17/2008; ; 700+ words
; For theater lovers, the Synge Cycle can become a vehicle to explore the world of Irish playwright John Millington Synge. Beginning today and for the next...upcoming centenary of the death of Synge (1871- 1909). The centerpiece...
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TREASURE ISLAND Remote Inis Meain inspired JM Synge's plays . . . and the actors performing his work over 100 years later
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 8/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Druid Theatre gaze out to sea from Synge's Chair - the rocky outcrop named...ambitious project yet: DruidSynge. John Millington Synge was the playwright who put a stick...38 - from Hodgkin's disease - Synge published only six plays, but...
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Edmund John Millington Synge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edmund John Millington Synge The Irish dramatist Edmund John Millington Synge (1871-1909), one of the greatest...peasantry the subject of his plays. John Millington Synge was born on April 16, 1871...
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John Millington Synge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Millington Synge , 1871-1909, Irish poet and dramatist...compatriot W. B. Yeats , who persuaded Synge to live for a while in the Aran Islands...devote himself to creative work. All of Synge's plays reflect his experiences in...
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Synge, John Millington
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Synge, John Millington (1871–1909) Irish dramatist who was important in the renaissance of Irish literature . Synge was one of the organizers of the Abbey Theatre in 1904, and his comedy...
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Synge, (Edmund) John Millington
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Synge, (Edmund) John Millington (1871–1909), Irish playwright...from Yeats , whom he met in Paris, Synge went to the Aran islands in order to...performed at the Abbey Theatre, of which Synge became a director in 1906. His Poems...
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Martin, Archer John Porter
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Martin, Archer John Porter ENGLISH BIOCHEMIST...solvent extraction. Archer John Porter Martin grew up in...he met Richard Lawrence Millington Synge and began to collaborate...H. (1993). "Archer John Porter Martin." In Nobel...
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