The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts.
Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907.
Price: $2,500.00
Hardcover. First edition, trade issue (there was also a limited edition of 25 copies). Bookplate of Oliver Brett, boards a little soiled, some scattered foxing, an easily very good or better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. The Irish playwright's most famous work, a masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance, inspired by his travels in the congested districts of the Irish west coast. *Connolly 100*.
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John M. Synge
birth name: John Millington Synge
born: 4/16/1871
died: 3/24/1909
Biography
Poetic dramatist of great power who was a leading figure in the Irish Literary Renaissance. He portrayed the primitive life of the Aran Islands and the western Irish seaboard with sophisticated craftsmanship. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore