John Millington Synge (Critical Survey of Drama)
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John Millington Synge’s nondramatic works—autobiographical sketches, essays, reviews, and diaries—document the proposition that his dramatic career began with his response to William Butler Yeats’s advice to abandon Paris for Ireland’s remote regions. Synge’s observations of the lives of the country people of Aran, Connemara, Kerry, and Wicklow indicate that until he lived in these repositories of folk tradition, he had not found either theme or style. The...
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