John Millington Synge

Synge, John Millington (1871–1909), Irish poet and playwright. His plays often portray rural Irish life of his times. Among his best-known and most-respected works are the tragedy Riders to the Sea (1904) and the comedy Playboy of the Western World (1907). Some of his plays were produced in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he and W.B. Yeats helped to found (1904).