John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was a leading figure of the Irish literary renaissance, a founder of the Abbey Theatre, and author of the play Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots when it opened. Early on, Yeats encouraged Synge to explore the Aran Islands to draw material from life. Struggling against the lymphatic sarcoma that caused his death, Synge lived among the islanders, basing his one-act plays, In the Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea, on their stories. Vitalized by the syntax of the Irish language and be and realistic imagery, his work set the dominant style of the Abbey Theatre until the 1940s.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- In the Shadow of the Glen, an one-act play, in Winter 2019