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JM Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism by Seán Hewitt: original, powerful synergy
A rich account of three key but diverse topics convincingly held in one critical frame
John Millington Synge by John Butler Yeats. Photograph: DeAgostini/Getty Images
Anthony Roche
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£75.00
April 16th, 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Millington Synge. Synge had a tragically short life, succumbing to Hodgkinâs Disease just shy of his 38th birthday. But his achievement was considerable and the plays in particular have ensured him a lengthy afterlife, as a still potent ghost in the Irish imaginary.
There has been a renewal of scholarly interest in Synge in recent years; but there never have been and never will be that many scholarly monographs on JM Synge. For any scholar who is serious enough to undertake work on Synge is obliged to delve deep into the archive held in the writerâs alma mater, Trinity College, Dublin, and familiarise themselves with the not