The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge
Authors and Contributors      Edited by P. J. Mathews
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:214
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780521125161
ClassificationsDewey:822.912
Audience
Undergraduate
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 November 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.