Collected Plays and Poems and the Aran Islands (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

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Mysterious, troublesome and romantic, Synge rose to fame on a flood of lively, outrageous work. On the night of its premier, The Playboy of the Western World started a riot among the audience who denounced Synge as "immoral" and "anti-Irish." Also included in this collection are The Shadow of the Glen, and four other plays, along with poems, translations and the complete text of The Aran Islands that dance with Synge's fascinating, curiously hybrid language and attention to raw Irish life.