Four Plays (World's Classics)

J.M. Synge

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Synge's classic work set in Mayo. A mysterious traveller, Christy Mahon, arrives in the village believing he has killed his father. He is looked upon as a hero by the locals and falls in love with one of them, Pegeen Mike, who agrees to marry him. But when Christy's 'murdered' father appears on the scene, Christy's fortune takes a downturn with comic and tragic result.

The Playboy of the Western World

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

W.W.Norton&Company

This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. This book presents two plays dealing with different aspects of life in the West of Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century.

Playboy of the Western World (Hereford Plays)

Methuen Drama

The plays of John Millington Synge (1871–1909) are filled with the humors, sorrows, and dreams of the country folk of the Aran Islands and the western Irish coastlands, where, in Synge's works, "we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent, and tender." The Playboy of the Western World, his most famous play, is sweetly funny and ironic as it follows its young hero's progress, in the eyes of others, from timid weakling to paragon of bravery. The shorter one-act play, Riders to the Sea, is a dark elegy to the fragile existence of those who live at the mercy of the sea. Both are beautifully crafted dramas that celebrate Irish gifts for lyrical language. They are reprinted here from authoritative editions, complete with Synge's preface to The Playboy of the Western World.

The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

Reference

Dover Publications

The Aran Islands

History

Europe

RECORDED BOOKS,INC.

Collected Works: Prose (Vol. 2)

Genre Fiction

Colin Smythe

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

J. M. Synge's Ireland: In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara

George Gmelch

Ann Saddlemyer

The O'Brien Press

A one act play for one male and three females, set in Ireland, tells the story of a mother whose sixth son is about to follow his five brothers to a seafarer's life and death.

Riders to the Sea

Poetry

Baker's Plays

The Playboy of the Western World; Edited By Stanley Sultan, with Brush Drawings By Louis Le Brocquy

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Imprint Society

In Wicklow, West Kerry, and Connemara

OʼBrien Press

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