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Edmund John Millington Synge (/ s ɪ ŋ /; 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival.
12 de abr. de 2024 · J.M. Synge, leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance, a poetic dramatist of great power who portrayed the harsh rural conditions of the Aran Islands and the western Irish seaboard with sophisticated craftsmanship.
J.M. Synge, born in Rathfarnham, outside Dublin, Ireland, is the most highly esteemed playwright of the Irish literary renaissance of the early 20th century. Although he died just short of his 38th birthday and produced a modest number of works, his writings have made an impact on audiences, writers, and Irish culture.
John Millington Synge was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin in 1871 into an evangelical Church of Ireland family who previously owned substantial estates in Co. Wicklow. As a young man, Synge's exposure to the works of Darwin and Marx led him to trade (in his words) the "kingdom of heaven" for the "kingdom of Ireland".
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 ...
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) Nicholas Grene. It was his famous first meeting with the poet W.B. Yeats that turned J.M. Synge into a legend of the Irish Literary Revival. Encountering the somewhat younger writer in Paris in December 1896, Yeats claims to have given him crucial advice on his career: 'Give up Paris.
Synge, (Edmund) John Millington (16 April 1871–1909), writer, was born 16 April 1871 in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, into an Anglo-Irish family of ecclesiastics and landlords, descended from Bishop Edward Synge (qv) (d. 1678), whose fortunes had declined through the nineteenth century.
