What’s Coming
David Edgar: J.M. Synge, 22 March 2001
Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge
by W.J. McCormack.
Weidenfeld, 499 pp., £25, March 2000,0 297 64612 5 Show More
by W.J. McCormack.
Weidenfeld, 499 pp., £25, March 2000,
Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000
edited by Nicholas Grene.
Lilliput, 220 pp., £29.95, July 2000,1 901866 47 5 Show More
edited by Nicholas Grene.
Lilliput, 220 pp., £29.95, July 2000,
“... whose work fits most closely into the tradition of Synge’s dramaturgy. His monologue St Nicholas is literally a story (about vampires, as it happens) told in the past tense by a single character to the audience; his hugely successful play The Weir has the same structure as Pinter’s The Homecoming (a man brings a woman into a close-knit group with ... ”