AND THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT BY FRANCIS BICKLEY LONDON: CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD. NOTE In the following pages no attempt is made to give Synge his ultimate place in literary history. Two or three hundred years hence will be time enough to begin to think of doing that. My aim has been to show, roughly, where he stood in relation to his contemporaries and, still more roughly, in the line of English-written drama; and to analyse the qualities which make his work so notable. The pages dealing with the Irish Dramatic Movement are to be regarded as background. I must express my thanks to Mr. Yeats for his kindness in reading proofs and in giving me some valuable hints; also to Mr. Yeats and Mr. Fisher Unwin for permission to print the poem To Ireland in the Coming Times. 247740 |