Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan.
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Performance of text | John Millington Synge | He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society... |
Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's most controversial play, The Playboy of the Western World, premiered at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, starring May Craig
. Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan. 186 Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 13 |
Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's final three-act play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, which he worked and reworked but left unfinished, was staged at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxvi Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 138 |
Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
Occupation | John Millington Synge | In 1904, A. E. Horniman
, an Englishwoman who admired Yeats's dedication to Irish theatre, paid for the renovation of two buildings on Abbey Street and Marlborough Street, Dublin, and offered them free to... |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Dublin's Abbey Theatre
, new home of the Irish National Theatre Society
, opened with WBY
's On Baile's Strand in a triple bill with Lady Gregory
's Spreading the News, and Cathleen ni Houlihan by them both. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | WBY
's last play, Purgatory, was performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, alongside a revival of the two plays produced when the theatre first opened, Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile's Strand. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Augusta Gregory
collaborated with Yeats on a revised version of this play, The Unicorn from the Stars, which opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin on 21 November 1907. |
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