John M. Synge

The Playboy of the Western World

originally published:
Dublin : Maunsel and Co.
1907

We offered this copy of the first American edition in 2002.

awards:

  • Connolly 100(1907)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 4/16/1871
died: 3/24/1909
born as: John Millington Synge

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 Literature

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