Synge began by studying language at Trinity College, Dublin, but decided to become a musician and travelled to Germany, Italy and France for further study. He met Yeats in Paris in 1899 and turned to writing literary criticism. He often visited The Aran Isles and published The Aran Isles in 1907. His first successful play was In The Shadow of the Glen (1903) and was followed by Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907), which caused riots in Dublin and New York at its openings. His last work, Deirdre of the Sorrows, finished when he was dying, was published posthumously in 1910. |
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