Synge: A Critical Study of His Plays

by Nicholas Grene

Considers the social milieu in which Synge lived and worked in analyzing his Riders to the Sea, The Shadow of the Glen, The Tinker's Wedding, The Well of the Saints, The Playboy of the Western World, and Deirdre of the Sorrows

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Leif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grene is a sensitive reader of Synge's plays and language, although some of the critical moves are, perhaps inevitably, marked by a certain mode of criticism currently very much out of fashion.