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Contents 1 older entries 2 External link 3 Britannica 4 Ben Affleck 5 "Contradict" tag

[edit] older entries

Is this copyrighted? This is just a copy of: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc26.html

I used that text as a start and added some info from other sources. -- Viajero 16:43, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

This was the text before I started a rewrite:

John Millington Synge (born April 16, 1871, died March 24, 1909) was an Irish writer, best known for the play The Playboy of the Western World.

Synge was born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin. He received his degree from Trinity College, Dublin, then went to Germany to study music. He then travelled on foot through Germany, Italy and France and then went to Paris, where he lived for several years writing literary criticism. Here, in 1899, he met a compatriot, William Butler Yeats, who persuaded Synge to live for a while in the Aran Islands and then return to Dublin and devote himself to creative work. The Aran Islands (1907) is the journal of Synge's retreat. His subsequent work reflected the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk. The plays on which his fame rests were written in the last six years of his life. The first two one-act plays, In the Shadow of the Glen, (1903), a comedy, and Riders to the Sea (1904), were produced by the Irish National Theatre Society. This group, with Synge, Yeats and Lady Gregory as co-directors, organized in 1904 the Abbey Theatre. Two comedies, The Well of the Saints (1905) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907), were presented by the Abbey players. The latter play created an uproar among Irish patriots stung by Synge's bitter humor.

Synge's later works included The Tinker's Wedding, published in 1908 but not produced for fear of further riots, and Deirdre of the Sorrows, a tragedy unfinished at the time of his death but presented by the Abbey players in 1910.

[edit] External link

• Internet Broadway Database entry for Synge

[edit] Britannica

This article has some sort of citation here [1], in Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Anyone know what's going on?--Shtove 08:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Affleck

That picture looks amusingly like Ben Affleck with a fake moustache. 61.69.200.71 05:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Is it a featured article ? --Miwanya 14:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Contradict" tag

From the text:

• Yeats returned from Scotland to address the crowd on the second night [of the performance of The Playboy of the Western World, 1907], famously declaring "You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?"

Later:

• The above quote 'You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?' is quoted from a speech by Yeats to the Abbey audience in 1926 on the fourth night of Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars.

So which was it? -- 131.111.8.99 21:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)