Shadows: "Riders to the Sea", "In the Shadow of the Glen" and "Purgatory"
J. M. Synge; William Butler Yeats - FIRST EDITION
Language: English
Published by Oberon Books Ltd, 1998
- First Edition
- Softcover
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This wonderful RSC production resulted in the three one act plays being issued as this First Edition. The Yeats piece is a masterwork, but the two Synge plays are almost unknown and fascinating. Clean and tight - unread and new - this slim volume has been stored since publication in a low light book room. A perfect collectable.
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- Title
- Shadows: "Riders to the Sea", "In the Shadow of the Glen" and "Purgatory"
- Author
- J. M. Synge; William Butler Yeats - FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 184002027X
- ISBN 13
- 9781840020274
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
A collection of three classic Irish one-act plays, as produced on the RSC’s highly successful 1998 tour. Richly passionate, poetic and violent, the plays reveal our fascination with death and transendance.
Features the plays Riders to the Sea, The Shadow of the Glen and Purgatory, with an introduction by Declan Kiberd.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) is widely regarded as the greatest ever Irish dramatist. Born in Dublin in 1871, he trained first as a musician and composer, but after a meeting with W. B. Yeats in Paris, came to focus on literature, giving voice for the first time to those communities on the West Coast of Ireland. Capturing their dialect and energising their stories, the lives of the people of Connemara, and the Aran Islands were brought to life through his six great plays: In The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905), The Playboy of the Western World (1907), The Tinkers' Wedding (1908), and his unfinished mythological drama Deirdre of the Sorrows (performed posthumously in 1910); as well as his travel journal of his time off the coast of Ireland entitled simply The Aran Islands (1907).
A strong advocate and contributor to the nascent Abbey Theatre, Synge, along with Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats, was its leading light. His premature death from Hodgkin's disease left the Irish theatre bereft of its first great genius.
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