Yeats and Lady Gregory, who performed the play as-is in Synge’s memory (Poetry Foundation). The draft was given to Synge’s goodįriends, W.B. He was able to draft, but not complete, his final playĭeirdre of Sorrows before the cancer took his life on March 24, 1909. True plight of the rural Irish (Poetry Foundation).Īs the lymphoma grew, Synge continued to write. Notably, one of Synge’s best works came as Riders to the Sea, a short, one act play written in 1904.ĭespite its length, Riders to the Sea was hailed as “almost perfect” by critics. Outcasts, caused riots in the streets of Dublin during it’s first run at the Abbey Theatre (Britannica). Unsentimental treatment of Irishmen’s love for boasting and their tendency to promote ruffians and Inspired one of Synge’s most famous plays, The Playboy of the Western World.The play, with its His observations and impressions of life on the Aran Islands were recorded and later To travel back and forth to the Aran Islands for a number of years.ĭuring these travels, Synge was already living with the early effects of the lymphoma that ended his Urged his friend to leave Paris in order to further develop his writing. That Synge met his good friend and mentor, W.B. Nervous to perform, and moved to Paris in 1894 to study language and literature instead.
Moved out of his mothers home and traveled to Germany to study music. It was also around this time that Synge began writing poetry. Synge was an ambitious musician with a focus in violin, In 1892, Synge earned his degree from Trinity College inĭublin in music. To teach him from home (Stair Na Heireann ). Spent most of his childhood outside, observing nature and watching birds, while his mother hired a tutor Synge attended school beginningĪt age ten for four years, but he soon developed health problems that prevented regular attendance. His mother was able to afford to send all five children to private school. He was a part of a well-off, upper class family and His life and died shortly before his 38th birthday.īorn the last of five children, Synge and his siblings were raised by their deeply Protestant motherĪfter their father died in 1872 (Poetry Foundation). He developed Hodgkin’s lymphoma during the end of Of the twentieth century (Poetry Foundation). Considered one of theįoremost English-language dramatists, Synge was the most highly esteemed playwright at the turn Riots in the streets of Dublin after its opening performance at the Theatre. Synge is best known for his play, The Playboy of the Western World, which caused He was a founding member of the Abbey Theatre along with Lady Gregory and Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, contributing prose, poetry, and drama to the literary community. John Millington Synge was born on April 16th, 1871, in Rathfarnham, Ireland.
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