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Resentment, relevance, and the production history of The playboy of the Western world / John P. Harrington -- The playboy, critics, and the enduring problem of the audience / Ginger Strand -- A young man's ghost: J.M. Synge, The playboy of the Western world, and W.B. Yeats's A vision / Ellen Powers Stengel -- Tragic self-referral in Riders to the sea / Daniel Davy -- Death and the colleen: The shadow of the glen / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt -- The wooing of Étaín: Celtic myth and The shadow of the glen / Cóilín D. Owens -- Of holy wells and sacred spells: strange comedy at the Abbey / Dan Casey -- "Passing the gap": reading the betwixt and between of liminality in J.M. Synge's The well of the saints / Carolyn L. Mathews -- "More matter for a May morning": J.M. Synge's The tinker's wedding / Robert E. Rhodes -- "Cute thinking women": the language of Synge's female vagrants / Jane Duke Elkins -- Synge's Deirdre of the sorrows: defamiliarizing the myth / Eileen J. Doll -- "Stimulating stories of our own land": "history making" and the work of J.M. Synge / Heidi J. Holder -- The devil and auld Mahoun: exposing the trickster archetype in Synge's Christy Mahon by way of Rushdie's Muhammad/Mahound / Gale Schricker Swiontkowski -- J.M. Synge's vagrant aesthetic / William Atkinson. |
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