Synge: Complete Plays

A re-issue of the collected plays by one of Ireland''s most celebrated writers

In The Shadow of the Glen an old man tests his wife''s commitment by feigning death; Riders to the Sea is inspired by Synge''s stay on the Aran Islands and shadows the death of a way of life as a mother sees her sons die before her eyes; The Tinker''s Wedding is about a woman''s desire for marriage to her tinker husband ...