Inhalt
CONTENTS
Dedication
vii
Acknowledgements
x
Abbreviations
xii
Introduction
1
1 | J.M. Synge: Christianity versus Paganism
11
2 | Synge and Germany: Drama as Translation
45
3 | Yeats, Synge and an Emerging Irish Drama
67
4 | Joyce, Synge and the Irish Theatre Movement
93
5 | Ghosts in Irish Drama: Synge’s Riders to the Sea, Yeats’s
The Only Jealousy of Emer and Stewart Parker’s Pentecost
135
6 | Woman on the Threshold: Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen,
Teresa Deevy’s Katie Roche and Marina Carr’s The Mai
161
7 | Marginal Zones and Liminality: Synge’s The Well of the
Saints and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
181
8 | Postmodern Playboy: Synge in the Twenty-First Century
199
9 | J.M. Synge and Molly Allgood: The Woman and the Tramp
231
10 | Brian Friel and Synge: Towards a Theatrical Language
245
Conclusion
263
Select Bibliography
271
Index
281
