The Aran Islands
In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas. Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so; it is Ireland raised to the power of two. Towards the end of the last century Iris…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-195883-5
- EAN: 9780141958835
- Produktnummer: 17834994
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'775 KB
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J.M. Synge
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