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J.M. Synge

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born

April 16, 1871 in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland

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.

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Books by J.M. Synge

Average rating: 3.66 · 1,883 ratings · 116 reviews · 43 distinct works

	The Playboy of the Western World 3.47 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1907 — 41 editions	My rating:
	The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge, Dover Thrift Editions 3.65 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1907 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Riders to the Sea 3.60 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1970 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge, Tim Robinson 3.76 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1907 — 41 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Plays 4.22 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1912 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays by J.M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, W.B. Yeats 4.07 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1907	My rating:
	The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by J.M. Synge, Robert Welch (Afterword), Edna O'Brien (Introduction) 3.58 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy 3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Deirdre of the Sorrows: And the Tinker's Wedding and the Shadow of the Glen 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	My rating:
	In the Shadow of the glen 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by J.M. Synge

“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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“...drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart...”
― J.M. Synge

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