Edited by : Patrick Lonergan
Publication Date 30th, June, 2011
ISBN 978-1-904505-50-1
Cost €25.00
The year 2009 was the centenary of the death of John Millington Synge, one of the world’s great dramatists. To mark the occasion, this book gathers essays by leading scholars of Irish drama, aiming to explore the writers and movements that shaped Synge, and to consider his enduring legacies.
The essays discuss Synge’s work in its Irish, European and world contexts – showing his engagement not just with the Irish literary revival but with European politics and culture too. It also explores Synge’s influence on later writers: Irish dramatists such as Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Marina Carr, as well as international writers like Mustapha Matura and Erisa Kironde. It also considers Synge’s place in Ireland today, revealing how The Playboy of the Western World has helped to shape Ireland’s responses to globalisation and multiculturalism, in celebrated productions by the Abbey Theatre, Druid theatre, and Pan Pan theatre company.
Contributors:, Bisi Adigun, Mary Burke, Adrian Frazier, Sara Keating, Ben Levitas, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mark Phelan, Ondřej Pilný, Emilie Pine, Richard Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Paige Reynolds, Shaun Richards, Anthony Roche, Ann Saddlemyer and Melissa Sihra.
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