Oh my grief, I’ve lost him surely. I’ve lost the only Playboy of the Western World.
John Millington Synge Quotes
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
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Birth: | 16th April, 1871 |
Death: | 24th March, 1909 |
Nationality: | Irish |
Profession: | Playwright |
Edmund John Millington Synge was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish playwright. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He studied at Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Trinity College in Dublin, and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He wrote several plays include: In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints, The Playboy of the Western World, The Tinker's Wedding, and Deirdre of the Sorrows.
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