John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright who rose to fame and produced six influential plays between 1903-1909. He was the most esteemed playwright of the Irish literary renaissance. Synge won a scholarship for advanced study at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and began writing poetry in 1892. His major works included "In the Shadow of the Glen" produced in 1903 and "Riders to the Sea" written in 1901 but unpublished until later. Synge unfortunately passed away on March 24, 1909 at a young age, leaving only six plays but making a large impact.
BIOGRAPHICALLY the most remarkable feature of Synge's career was its brevity. In the six years which elapsed between 1903, whenIn the Shadow of the Glenwas produced, to 1909, when he died, he rose from absolute obscurity to world fame, and provided us with six plays on which his reputation must rest
