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<p>When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease, of which he was to die in three years. Synge had already achieved recognition as a playwright—translations of two of his plays had been performed in Berlin and Prague—and he was codirector, with Yeats and Lady Gregory, of the Irish National Theatre Society. Molly had started her acting career the year before, in the newly opened Abbey Theatre, with a walk-on part in Synge's <i>Well of the Saints</i>. She had been promoted from crowd scenes to bit parts to lead roles in <i>Riders to the Sea</i> and <i>The Shadow of the Glen</i>. She was still only a member of the company, however, while Synge was a director, whose codirectors disapproved of fraternization. Synge and Molly also faced the disapproval of two widowed mothers. Barring an occasional holiday trip or company road tour, they could seldom be alone together, except on secret afternoon meetings for long walks in the country. Hence their hundreds of letters.</p> <p>Molly's letters do not survive; they apparently were destroyed when Synge died. But his letters convey her mercurial charm, her

Author

J M Synge; Maire O'Neill; Ann Saddlemyer

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674528345

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities