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John Millington Synge "Letters to Molly: John Millington Synge to Maire O'Neill, 1906-1909 (Belknap Press)"
Belknap Press of Harvard Univers 1971 0674528344 / 9780674528345 Hardcover Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked, light creasing of price-clipped dust jacket extremities() 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 Well of the Saints. She had been promoted from crowd scenes to bit parts to lead roles in Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen. 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 co ID: mon0000099261"
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7.82 USD
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