The Cambridge companion to J.M. Synge / edited by P.J. Mathews.
Mathews, P. J. (Patrick J.), 1969-
2009
PR5534 .C36 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to J.M. Synge / edited by P.J. Mathews.
ISBN 9780521110105
0521110106
9780521125161 (pbk.)
0521125162 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description xv, 194 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR5534 .C36 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 822/.912
Summary Summary: John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This companion offers an introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide analyses of individual texts, as well as reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.
Note Summary: John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This companion offers an introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide analyses of individual texts, as well as reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Added Author Mathews, P. J. (Patrick J.), 1969-
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
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pt. 1. The Synge texts. Re-thinking Synge / P.J. Mathews
The Shadow of the glen and Riders to the sea / Oona Frawley
The playboy of the western world / Shaun Richards
The well of the saints and The tinker's wedding / Mary Burke
The Aran Islands and the travel essays / Elaine Sisson
Deirdre of the sorrows / Declan Kiberd
pt. 2. Theorising Synge. J.M. Synge: European encounters / Ben Levitas
Synge and the Irish language / Alan Titley
Synge and gender / Susan Cannon Harris
Postcolonial Synge / C.L. Innes
Synge and Irish modernism / Greogry Dobbins
pt. 3. Synge on stage. Synge in performance / Nicholas Grene
J.M. Synge in America / Brenda Murphy
Synge and contemporary Irish drama / Anthony Roche
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