Greg S’s Reviews > Synge: A Celebration > Status Update

“I hear that they are showing Frohman one play of mine, ‘Riders’, five or six of L.G.’s [Lady Gregory’s] and several of Yeats. I am raging about it, though…”

“Lady Gregory disliked The Playboy of the Western World, although she defended it in public.”

“…some of his family put it down to unrequited love. But it was the beginning of the Hodgkin’s disease that would kill him twelve years later.”

“…Synge’s had established huge estates and mock castles, while Yeats’s drew the rent from small farms and lived in the Dublin suburbs. Yeats had no money, while Synge had a small private income. Yeats had no university education, whereas Synge had been to Trinity…”