The tinker's wedding
By: John Millington Synge
Contributors: Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: Sarah Casey, an Irish traveller woman, has for years been going the roads with Michael Byrne, a casual tinsmith; now she would like to get married. She has saved up just enough money to pay the priest to marry them; half a sovereign plus the tin can Michael has made is to be the fee for the ceremony. But the tin can is too much of a temptation for Michael's mother Mary, who sees in it a quick sale that would give her ample money for alcohol, leaving Sarah unable to pay the unsympathetic pastor for the wedding, and the respectability, she so craves.
Notes: Previously published in print: in Complete plays. London, Methuen Drama, 2001.