Talk:John Millington Synge

message: Is this copyrighted?
This is just a copy of:
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc26.html
:I used that text as a start and added some info from other sources. -- Viajero 16:43, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: older entries

message: This article has some sort of citation here , in Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Anyone know what's going on?--Shtove 08:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Britannica 

message: That picture looks amusingly like Ben Affleck with a fake moustache. 61.69.200.71 05:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ben Affleck 

message: From the text:
*Yeats returned from Scotland to address the crowd on the second night [of the performance of The Playboy of the Western World, 1907], famously declaring "You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?"
Later:
*The above quote 'You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?' is quoted from a speech by Yeats to the Abbey audience in 1926 on the fourth night of Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars.
So which was it? -- 131.111.8.99 21:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Contradict" tag 

message: I placed a HatNote 
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which produces 
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and a colleague removed it, summarizing simply 
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Unfortunate, like most things, it's not that simple. As it says, the HatNote was there bcz of the Rdr, and the Rdr is still there. Since it is obvious the removal was made out ignorance, i am reverting it, without prejudice to a proper removal, whereby the HatNote would go, and the Rdr at Synge would be changed to point to Synge (surname).  So the question is, what do you think a user who asks for an article entitled "Synge" would be looking for?  I think they want, in 4 out 5 of cases, the famous playwright, and not the Nobel Prize winner (let alone a list of the minor notables who also bear the surname and have WP articles). If you agree, you want the Rdr to come to the accompanying article and the HatNote at its top.  If you think they are anywhere near as likely to want either the mathematician, or to be shown the full extent of the glorious pursuits of the world's Synges, you want the Rdr expunged, and Synge (surname) to be moved back to that title, and, of course, the HatNote to be removed. You have my opinion, but as the colleague presumably agrees, mine is no more relevant than any other well-informed editor's, and in fact i've really "got no skin in this game". Figure out which route to go, and if you do want the HatNote, i'd be glad to be the admin who makes it possible to move the surname page back to the title currently occupied by the Rdr. --Jerzy•t 01:08, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  HatNote "Redirect" Dab 

message: "Synge was open when he would write letters to women, and instead of being reticent, he was acted like "an ordinary human being but not a particularly eloquent one".[39] However, his letters to Allgood, an actress that Synge wrote to often, are filled with condescending remarks and as a man who is "not only unattractive but also incompatible with the complex personality of the man who wrote the plays"."
These sentences are so distorted as to be almost incomprehensible. Perhaps someone who knows what they are meant to say could rewrite them in grammatical English.218.14.49.121 (talk) 02:20, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personality 

message: Sing, not singe, right? —JerryFriedman  (Talk) 22:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: According to footnotes in a collection of Synge's letters, at least, one of Synge's cousins, Margaret B Synge (1861-1939) was a notable children's author, by the way. Schissel | Sound the Note! 02:31, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  MB Synge 

message: Our article contains a paragraph on Synge's political nature and asserts that he had radical beliefs, sourced exclusively to Declan Kiberd.  The text is an accurate statement of Kiberd's views.
A similar (but perhaps more moderate) take appears to be Skelton, Robin; "The Politics of J. M. Synge". The Massachusetts Review 18, no. 1 (1977): 7-22.
But Yeats held that Synge was essentially apolitical.  "He was the man that we needed, because he was the only man I have ever known incapable of a political thought or of a humanitarian purpose."   Yeats, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, pp. 352-53; and "Synge has described, through an exaggerated symbolism, a reality which he loved precisely because he loved all reality. So far from being, as they thought, a politician working in the interests of England, he was so little a politician that the world merely amused him and touched his pity". Id., pp. 385-86.
Perhaps this is a case (to quote Auden on Yeats) where "the words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living." Kablammo (talk) 02:09, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synge and politics