The playboy of the Western World ; and, Riders to the sea
By: J.M. Synge
Series: Perennial library
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780064632263
Subjects: Drama
Other titles: Riders to the sea
Description: In the stormy years before Ireland at last gained her independence a brilliant revival of Irish drama took place and culminated in the foundation of the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Of those who helped to create it - W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, the Fay brothers, and Miss Horniman - it was J. M. Synge as much as anyone who made the new Irish drama the force it quickly became in the theatres of the world. In his plays, as in his rich, tumbling comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, or in the tragedy of classic simplicity, Riders to the Sea, he succeeds more than any other dramatist in miraculously distilling the Irish spirit. -- from back cover.