from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

(Irish dramatist)

Works

Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World. Drama. 1907.

_____. Riders to the Sea. 1904.

_____. Riders to the Sea. Drama. In The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London: Arnold, 1997. 1205-13.*

_____. Deirdre of the Sorrows. Drama. (Based on the legendary Irish princess).

_____. In the Shadow of the Glen.

_____. The Well of the Saints.

_____. The Tinker's Wedding. Drama. Premiere at London, 1909.

_____. Luasnad, Capa and Laine. Drama. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 10 (1997): 292-310 (even pages).*

_____. Luasnad, Capa y Laine. Spanish trans. by Francisco Javier Torres Ribelles. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 10 (1997): 293-311 (odd pages).*

_____. Poems and Translations. 1909.

_____. The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea. London: Routledge, 1979.

_____. Plays, Poems and Prose. London: Dent.

_____. Collected Works. Edited by Robin Skelton, Alan Price, and Ann Saddlemeyer. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1982.

_____. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge. Database. (English Letters). Intelex / Oxford UP, 2004. (Oxford UP).

http://www.nlx.oup.com

2004.

_____. Travelling Ireland. Essays. Ed. Nicholas Grene. 2009.

Biography

Masefield, John. John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections With Biographical Notes. Netchworth: Garden City Press Ltd., 1916.

Criticism

Ayling, Ronald, ed. Synge: Four Plays. (Casebooks series). Houndmills: Macmillan, 1992.

Burke, Mary. 'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller. 2009.

_____. "4. The Well of the Saints and The Tinker's Wedding." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 41-51.*

Dobbins, Gregory. "11. Synge and Irish Modernism." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 132-46.*

Frawley, Oona. "2. The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 15-27.*

Goldman, Arnold. Synge's The Aran Islands: A World of Grey. C. George Sandulescu. Joyce & Vico & Linguistic Theory. Monaco: Princess Grace Irish Library Lectures.

Greene, David. "J.M. Synge: A Reappraisal" in Critical Essays on John Millington Synge. Ed. Daniel J. Casey. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994. 15-27.

Grene, Nicholas. "12. Synge in Performance." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 149-61.*

Hopkins, Chris. "Peasant Languages and Celtic Nations: The Englishes of J. M. Synge and Caradoc Evans." In English Literature and the Other Languages. Ed. Ton Hoenselaars and Marius Buning. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

Harris, Susan Cannon. "9. Synge and Gender." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 104-16.*

Innes, C. L. "10. Postcolonial Synge." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 117-31.*

Iztueta Goizueta, Garbiñe. "Entre el héroe romántico y el antihéroe del absurdo: el héroe Christy frente a Shawn en The Playboy of the Western World." Actas del XXI Congreso AEDEAN. Ed. F. Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla, 1999. 413-17.*

Kiberd, Declan. Synge and the Irish Language. 1979. 1993.

_____. "6. Deirdre of the Sorrows." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 64-73.*

Levitas, Ben. The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890-1916. 2002.

_____. "7. J. M. Synge: European Encounters." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 77-91.*

Lucas, F. L. The Drama of Chekhov, Synge, Yeats and Pirandello. London: Cassell, 1963.

Mc Cormack, W. J. "Varieties of Celticism." In Mc Cormack, From Burke to Beckett. Cork: Cork UP, 1994. 207-24.* (Renan, Arnold, O'Grady, Synge).

_____. "Art as Praxis in The Well of the Saints." In McCormack, From Burke to Beckett: Ascendancy, Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History. Cork: Cork UP, 1994.*

Mathews, P. J. "1, Re-thinking Synge." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 3-14.*

_____, ed. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.*

Murphy, Brenda. "13. J. M. Synge in America." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 162-72.*

Richards, Shaun. "3. The Playboy of the Western World." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 28-40.*

Roche, Anthony. "14. Synge and Contemporary Irish Drama." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 173-84.*

"Select Bibliography." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 185-90.*

Sisson, Elaine. "5. The Aran Islands and the Travel Essays." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 52-63.*

Styan, J. L. "3. Making Meanings in the Theatre: The Playboy of the Western World." In Styan, The Elements of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1960. 86-118.* (Synge).

_____. "6. Building the Sequence of Impressions - King Oedipus, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Murder in the Cathedral." In Styan, The Elements of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1960. 121-40.* (Synge).

_____. "12. Passing Judgment: Deirdre of the Sorrows, The Lady's Not for Burning, The Cocktail Party." In Styan, The Elements of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1960.* (Christopher Fry).

Synge: The Playboy of the Western World. (Brodie's Notes). Houndmills: Macmillan.

Torres Ribelles, Francisco Javier. "The Aran Islands: En busca del tiempo perdido." Actas del XV Congreso de AEDEAN. Logroño: Colegio Universitario de La Rioja, 1993. 123-8.*

Titley, Alan. "8. Synge and the Irish Language." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 92-103.*

Bibliography

"Select Bibliography." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 185-90.*

Internet resources

"John Millington Synge." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Millington_Synge

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Music

Vaughan Wiliiams, Ralph. Riders to the Sea. Opera in one act based on the play by J. M. Synge. 1925/1932. Linda Finnie, Karl Daymond, Lynne Dawson, Ingrid Attrot, Pamela Helen Stephen. Northern Sinfonia / Richard Hickox. Online at YouTube (TheWelleszCompany) 15 Aug. 2011.*

http://youtu.be/I6I_m7GbU_o

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