I m thinking this night wasn t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by. Christy Mahon
On the first night of J. M. Synge s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of Dublin. How did one play provoke this? Christopher Collins addresses The Playboy s satirical treatment of illusion and realism in light of Ireland s struggle for independence, as well as Synge s struggle for artistic expression. By exploring Synge s unpublished...
I m thinking this night wasn t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by. Christy Mahon
The book draws extensively on Synge's archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christian beliefs, but also how he thought about an older, almost forgotten culture that Catholic Ireland desperately wanted to forget.
The book draws extensively on Synge's archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christia...
