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John Millington Synge

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The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.


— John Millington Synge


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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.


— John Millington Synge


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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.


— John Millington Synge


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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?


— John Millington Synge


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About John Millington Synge

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Did you know about John Millington Synge?

Not even the members of his own family were close enough to understand him. The comedy centers on the story of apparent patricide and attracted a wide hostile reaction from the Irish public.

He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre. Synge suffered from Hodgkin's disease a form of cancer at the time untreatable.

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