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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2010
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9781139002721
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521110105
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, Irish Literature, English Literature: General Interest
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

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 a comprehensive 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 detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive 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.

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Synge, J. M., Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, vol. 1, 1871–1907, ed. Saddlemyer, Ann (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
Synge, J. M., Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, vol. 2, 1907–1909, ed. Saddlemyer, Ann (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
Synge, J. M., Letters to Molly, John Millington Synge to Maire O’Neill 1906–1909, ed. Saddlemyer, Ann (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971).
Kiely, David M., John Millington Synge: A Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994).
Mc Cormack, W. J., Fool of the Family: A Life of J. M Synge (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000).
Masefield, John, John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections with Biographical Notes (Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1915).
Mikhail, E. H. (ed.), J. M. Synge: Interviews and Recollections (London: Macmillan, 1977).
Stephens, Edward, My Uncle John, ed. Carpenter, Andrew (London: Oxford University Press, 1974).
Bickley, Francis L., J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement (London: Constable, 1912).
Bourgeois, Maurice, John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre (London: Constable, 1913)
Burke, Mary, ‘Tinkers’: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Corkery, Daniel, Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature (Cork: Mercier Press, 1966).
Gerstenberger, Donna, John Millington Synge (New York: Twayne, 1964).
Greene, David H. and Stephens, Edward M., J. M. Synge: 1871–1909 (New York: Macmillan, 1959).
Grene, Nicholas, Synge: A Critical Study of the Plays (London: Macmillan, 1975).
Hart, William E., Synge’s First Symphony: The Aran Islands (New Britain, CT: Mariel Publications, 1993).
Henn, T. R., The Plays and Poems of J. M. Synge (London: Methuen, 1963).
Howe, P. P., J. M. Synge: A Critical Study (New York: Greenwood Press, 1965).
Johnson, Toni O’Brien, Synge: The Medieval and the Grotesque (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1982).
Johnston, Denis, John Millington Synge (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965).
Jones, Nesta, File on Synge (London: Methuen, 1994).
Kiberd, Declan, Synge and the Irish Language (London: Macmillan, 1993).
Kilroy, James, The ‘Playboy’ Riots (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1971).
King, Mary C., The Drama of J. M. Synge (Syracuse University Press, 1985).
Lucas, F. L.The Drama of Chekhov, Synge, Yeats and Pirandello (London: Cassell, 1963).
McDonald, Ronan, Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O’Casey, Beckett (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, Nelson, Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
Price, Alan, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama (New York: Russell & Russell, 1972).
Price, Alan, The Writings of J. M. Synge (London: Thames & Hudson, 1971).
Saddlemyer, Ann, J. M. Synge and Modern Comedy (Chester Springs, PA: Dolmen Press, 1968).
Skelton, Robin, The Writings of J. M. Synge (London: Thames & Hudson, 1971).
Sanchez, Ramón Sainero, Lorca y Synge: ¿un mundo maldito? (Madrid: Edítorial de la Universidad Complutense, 1983).
Smoot, Jean J., A Comparison of Plays by J. M. Synge and Federico García Lorca (Madrid: Turanzas, 1978).
Strong, L. A. G., John Millington Synge (London: Allen & Unwin, 1941).
Thornton, Weldon, J. M. Synge and the Western Mind (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1979).
Burke, Helen, Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712–1784 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).
Cairns, David and Richards, Shaun, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (Manchester University Press, 1988).
Castle, Gregory, Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Clarke, Brenna Katz, The Emergence of the Irish Peasant Play at the Abbey Theatre (Essex: Bowker Publishing, 1982).
Cleary, Joe, Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Field Day, 2006).
Flannery, James, W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976).
Frazier, Adrian, Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Grene, Nicholas, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Grene, Nicholas (ed.), J. M. Synge Travelling Ireland: Essays 1898–1908 (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2009).
Harris, Susan Cannon, Gender and Modern Irish Drama (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).
Innes, C. L., The Devils Own Mirror: the Irishman and the African in Modern Literature (Washington, DC: 3 Continents Press, 1990).
Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995).
Kiberd, Declan, Irish Classics (London: Granta, 2000).
Levitas, Ben, The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890–1916 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002).
Mathews, P. J., Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement (Cork: Field Day / Cork University Press, 2003).
Matter, Sinead, Garrigan, Primitivism, Science and the Irish Revival (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).
Maxwell, D. E. S., A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891–1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Morash, Christopher, A History of Irish Theatre 1601–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Murray, Christopher, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation (Manchester University Press, 2002).
O’Leary, Philip, The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival 1881–1921: Ideology and Innovation (Pennsylvania, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1994).
Pilkington, Lionel, Theatre and the State in Twentieth Century Ireland: Cultivating the People (London: Routledge, 2001).
Reynolds, Paige, Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Roche, Anthony, Contemporary Irish Drama: From Beckett to McGuinness (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994).
Saddlemyer, Ann (ed.), Theatre Business: The Correspondence of the First Abbey Directors (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1982).
Sisson, Elaine, Pearse’s Patriots: St Enda’s and the Cult of Boyhood (Cork: Cork University Press, 2004).
Steele, Karen, Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival (Syracuse University Press, 2007).
Trotter, Mary, Ireland’s National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2001).
Stephen, Watt, Joyce, O’Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre (Syracuse University Press, 1991).
Robert, Welch, The Abbey Theatre 1899–1999: Form and Pressure (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Harry, White. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Worth, Katharine, The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett (London: Athlone Press, 1978).
Bloom, Harold (ed.), John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988).
Bushrui, S. B. (ed.), A Centenary Tribute to J. M. Synge: ‘Sunshine and the Moon’s Delight’ (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1979).
Casey, Daniel J. (ed.), Critical Essays on John Millington Synge (New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1994).
Clark, David R. (ed.), John Millington Synge: ‘Riders to the Sea’ (Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1970).
Frazier, Adrian (ed.), Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2004).
Gonzalez, Alexander G. (ed.), Assessing the Achievement of J. M. Synge (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996).
Grene, Nicholas (ed.), Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991–2000 (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2000).
Harmon, Maurice (ed.), J. M. Synge: Centenary Papers, 1971 (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972).
Kopper, Edward A. (ed.), A  J. M. Synge Literary Companion (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988).
Whitaker, Thomas R. (ed), Twentieth Century Interpretations of ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969).
Arnold, Bruce, ‘John M. Synge 1905–1909’, in Jack Yeats (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998) pp. –51.
Bretherton, George, ‘A Carnival Christy and a Playboy for all Ages’, Twentieth Century Literature, 37.3 (1991), pp. –34.
Carville, Justin, ‘“My Wallet of Photographs”: Photography, Ethnography and Visual Hegemony in John Millington Synge’s The Aran Islands’, Irish Journal of Anthropology, 10.1 (2007), pp. –11.
Castle, Gregory, ‘Staging Ethnography: John M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and the Problem of Cultural Translation’, Theater Journal, 49.3 (1997), pp. –8.
Dalsimer, Adele M., ‘“The Irish Peasant had all his Heart”: J. M. Synge in the Country Shop’, Visualising Ireland: National Identity and the Pictorial Tradition (London: Faber & Faber, 1993), pp. –30.
Davy, Daniel, ‘Tragic Self-Referral in Riders to the Sea’, Éire-Ireland, 29.2 (Summer 1994), pp. –91.
Deane, Seamus, ‘Synge and Heroism’, Celtic Revivals (London: Faber & Faber, 1985), pp. –62.
Dobbins, Gregory, ‘Whenever Green is Red: James Connolly and Postcolonial Theory’, Nepantla: Views from South, 1.3 (2000), pp. –48.
Doggett, Rob, ‘In the Shadow of the Glen: Gender, Nationalism, and “A Woman Only”’, English Literary History, 67.4 (2000), pp. –34.
Döring, Tobias, ‘Dislocating Stages: Mustapha Matura’s Caribbean Rewriting of Synge and Chekhov’, European Journal of English Studies, 2.1 (1998), pp. –92.
Eckley, Grace, ‘Truth at the Bottom of a Well: Synge’s The Well of the Saints’, Modern Drama, 16 (1973), pp. –8.
Elkins, Jane Duke, ‘“Cute Thinking Women”: The Language of Synge’s Female Vagrants’, Éire-Ireland, 28.4 (1993), pp. –99.
Frawley, Oona, ‘Synge, The Aran Islands, and the Movement towards Realism’, Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia and Twentieth Century Irish Literature (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005), pp. –103.
Gibbons, Luke, ‘Synge, Country and Western: The Myth of the West in Irish and American Culture’, Transformations in Irish Culture (Cork: Field Day / Cork University Press, 1996) pp. –36.
Grene, Nicholas, ‘Two London Playboys: Before and After Druid’, in Frazier, Adrian (ed.), Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2004), pp. –86.
Harrington, John P., ‘Synge’s Playboy, the Irish Players, and the Anti-Irish Players’, The Irish Play on the New York Stage 1874–1966 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1997), pp. –74.
Hirsch, Edward, ‘The Imaginary Irish Peasant’, PMLA, 106.5 (1991), pp. –33.
Johnson, Toni O’Brien, ‘Interrogating Boundaries: Fantasy in the plays of J. M. Synge’, in Morse, Donald E. and Bertha, Csilla (eds.), More Real than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991), pp. –50.
Kiberd, Declan, ‘Synge, Yeats and Bardic Poetry’, in The Irish Writer and the World (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. –90.
Knapp, James F., ‘Primitivism and Empire: John Synge and Paul Gauguin’, Comparative Literature 41.1 (Winter 1989), pp. –68.
Kurdri, Maria, ‘Transplanting the Work of “that rooted man”: The Reception of John Millington Synge’s Drama in Hungary’, Comparative Drama, 41.2 (2007), pp. –40.
Leder, Judith Remy, ‘Synge’s Riders to the Sea: Island as Cultural Battleground’, Twentieth Century Literature, 36.2 (Summer 1990), pp. –25.
Levitas, Ben, ‘Censorship and Self-Censure in the Plays of J. M. Synge’, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 68.1–2 (2006–7), pp. –94.
McDiarmid, Lucy, ‘The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909–1915’, in Watt, Stephen et al. (eds.), A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000).
McMahon, Seán, ‘“Leave Troubling the Lord God”: A Note on Synge and Religion’, Éire-Ireland, 11.1 (1976), pp. –41.
Martin, Augustine, ‘Christy Mahon and the Apotheosis of Loneliness’, in Roche, Anthony (ed.) Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1996), pp. –43.
Murphy, Brenda, ‘Stoicism, Asceticism, and Ecstasy: Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows’, Modern Drama, 17 (June 1974), pp. –63.
Murphy, Paul, ‘J. M. Synge and the Pitfalls of National Consciousness’, Theatre Research International, 28.2 (2003), pp. –42.
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilis, ‘Synge’s Use of Popular Material in The Shadow of the Glen’, Béaloides: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society, 58 (1990), pp. –67.
Pollock, Jonathan, ‘The Aran Islands, One by One: John Millington Synge and Antonin Artaud’, in Amiot-Jouenne, Pascale (ed.), Irlande: Insularité, Singularité?: Actes du Colloque de la Société Française d’Études Irlandaises (Presses Universtaires de Perpignan, 2001),
Powers, Kate, ‘Myth and the Journey in The Well of the Saints’, Colby Quarterly, 26.4 (December 1990), pp. –40.
Richards, Shaun, ‘“The Outpouring of a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind”: The Critical Condition of Synge and McDonagh’, Irish University Review, 33.1 (Spring/ Summer 2003), pp. –14.
Roche, Anthony, ‘Woman on the Threshold: J. M. Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen, Teresa Deevy’s Katie Roche and Marina Carr’s The Mai’, Irish University Review, 25.1 (Spring/Summer 1995), pp. –62.
Roche, Anthony, ‘Synge, Brecht, and the Hiberno-German Connection, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 10.1–2 (2004), pp. –32.
Rose, Mary S., ‘Synge, Sophocles, and the Un-making of Myth’, Modern Drama, 12 (1969), pp. –53.
Spangler, Ellen, ‘Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows as Feminine Tragedy’, Éire-Ireland, 12.4 (1977), pp. –108.
Sprayberry, Sandra, ‘Sea Changes: Post-Colonialism in Synge and Walcott’, South Carolina Review, 33 (Spring, 2001) pp. –20.
Tifft, Stephen, ‘The Parricidal Phantasm: Irish Nationalism and the Playboy Riots’, in Parker, Andrew et al. (eds.), Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1992).
Upton, Carole-Anne, ‘Visions of the Sightless in Friel’s Molly Sweeney and Synge’s The Well of the Saints’, Modern Drama, 40.3 (1997), pp. –58.
Yeats, W. B., ‘J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time’, Essays and Introductions (London: Macmillan, 1961) pp. –42.

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