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J.M. Synge

Born

in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland

April 16, 1871

Died

March 24, 1909

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Theater

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Edmund John Millington Synge (pronounced /sɪŋ/) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for the play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots during its opening run at the Abbey theatre. Synge wrote many well known plays, including "Riders to the Sea", which is often considered to be his strongest literary work.

Although he came from an Anglo-Irish background, Synge's writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 12,742 ratings · 746 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Playboy of the Western World 3.54 avg rating — 5,526 ratings — published 1907 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riders to the Sea 3.57 avg rating — 2,340 ratings — published 1904 — 139 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea 3.72 avg rating — 1,583 ratings — published 1907 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aran Islands 3.80 avg rating — 1,023 ratings — published 1907 — 222 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by J.M. Synge, Robert Welch (Afterword), Edna O'Brien (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1907 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Plays of John M. Synge 4.01 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1912 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Shadow of the Glen 3.41 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1904 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deirdre of the Sorrows 3.76 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1910 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of J.M. Synge by J.M. Synge, Aidan Arrowsmith (editor) 4.06 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1935 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Well of the Saints 3.44 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1905 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But WE do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.”
― J.M. Synge

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“A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.”
― John Millington Synge

tags: literature, music, translation

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“If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl.”
― J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World

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July 2017 Short Story Poll

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 132 pages, 1952

82 votes, 25.2%

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, 56 pages, 1842

61 votes, 18.7%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages 1952

43 votes, 13.2%

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 110 pages, 1984

36 votes, 11.0%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917

31 votes, 9.5%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

26 votes, 8.0%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903

15 votes, 4.6%

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, 22 pages, 1926

13 votes, 4.0%

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, 32 pages, 1941

13 votes, 4.0%

The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, 68 pages, 1907

6 votes, 1.8%

326 total votes

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