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.I am trying to persuade him to give up his room in Paris and make a fresh start nearer home.The gland in his neck was still swollen when he returned at the beginning of the summer; when he saw the doctor in Dublin he was given an ointment and a different medicine.His mother invited Rosie Calthrop to stay with them once more and wrote to Sam about the amount of money Synge and Rosie had spent on an outing.‘John does not mind at all,’ she wrote, ‘of course it is my money and he has no scruples about that.However, I don’t mind now and then, but I would not like it often.’ Synge had his typewriter with him and was working on the first draft of a play When the Moon Has Set, which dealt with his own class and was thinly disguised autobiography, which he brought with him when he went to stay at Coole.Lady Gregory, when she read the play, told him, however, that it was not good and of no literary interest.From Coole he went west to the Islands and then back to Paris.That May of 1902 he was asked to review Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne, in which a version of the dialect spoken around Coole was used.Synge found this dialect close to the living speech he knew from rural Wicklow.In his review he described the language as ‘wonderfully simple and powerful … almost Elizabethan.’ The Elizabethan vocabulary, he wrote,has a force and colour that make it the only form of English that is quite suitable for incidents of the epic kind, and in her intercourse with the peasants of the West Lady Gregory has learned to use this vocabulary in a new way, while she carries with her plaintive Gaelic constructions that make her language, in a true sense, a language of Ireland.He was working on the drafts of his first plays.In The Shadow of the Glen and The Tinker’s Wedding he was, to some small extent, dramatizing the role of the artist, or the outsider, versus the role of the settled and respectable community; in other words, he made these plays as versions of his own plight at being turned down by Cherrie Matheson.Other aspects of these plays came from his own dreams and observations, especially in the summer months in Wicklow.Edward Stephens, who was fourteen at the time his uncle worked on these plays, wrote that the materialwas derived from the lore of the country people, not from any direct association with the tinkers themselves.They were so dirty and in their mode of life so disreputable that it would have been impossible for John to mix with them at his ease.He warned me against dropping into conversation with them on the road.By the beginning of the October of 1902 Synge had finished both Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen.On his way to the Aran Islands for his final visit – his book on the Islands still had not found a publisher – he stopped off at Coole to show the plays to Yeats and Lady Gregory, who described the plays as ‘both masterpieces, both perfect in their way.’ Later she wrote:He had gathered emotion, the driving force he needed from his life among the people, and it was the working in dialect that set free his style.Yeats saw the language of the Bible as another influence.Early the following year he decided to give up his room in Paris.When he unpacked his French belongings in Dublin, Edward Stephens watched him taking outthe knife and fork and little frying pan that he had used in Paris, he showed them to me as if they were things he regarded with affection.I asked him whether they had ever been cleaned, he replied: ‘A thing that is used by me only is never dirty.’Because of attacks of asthma he spent that summer in Kerry rather than in Wicklow, returning to Dublin for the rehearsals of The Shadow of the Glen, which opened in October to considerable controversy.When Synge and his mother went down to breakfast the morning after the opening night, they read in The Irish Times that the play was ‘excessively distasteful’ while the critic admitted ‘the cleverness of the dialect and the excellent acting of Nora and the tramp.’Edward Stephens wrote about his grandmother’s response to the play:All she read in the Irish Times perplexed her.She had thought of John as being overpersuaded by his literary friends into praising everything Irish but, now that a play of his had been acted, the newspapers were censuring him for attacking Irish character.She disliked the kind of publicity his work was getting, she was sorry that he should have adopted a form of dramatic writing that was likely to prove no more remunerative than the Aran book, and she was sorry that any of his work should be connected with the stage.Mrs Synge also worried about her son, now aged thirty-two, being out late.She wrote in her diary:After a dreadful storm last night, I had a headache from lying awake listening to the storm and watching for Johnnie who was not home until 3.30.The Irish Times had nothing much good to say about Riders to the Sea either when the play opened in February 1904.The Synges disapproved of what they read about it.‘The idea underlying the work is good enough,’ the critic said,but the treatment of it is to our mind repulsive.Indeed the play develops into something like a wake.The long exposure of the dead body before an audience may be realistic, but is certainly not artistic.There are some things which are lifelike, and yet are quite unfit for presentation on the stage and we think that Riders to the Sea is one of them.Edward Stephens remembered his father’s response: ‘If they want an Irish play, why can’t they act The Shaughraun?’The plays, however, were much praised by the London critics, but this made no difference to Synge’s family who were ‘serenely unaware of the importance of his work.’ After a sojourn in the West, Synge decided in October 1904 to find his own lodgings in Rathmines and move out of the family home.In January 1905 The Well of the Saints went into rehearsal with a walk-on part for a young actress, Molly Allgood, whose sister Sara was a well-known actress.She was nineteen.Soon she began to play important roles in the theatre’s repertoire, including Synge’s plays.Both the Synge family and Lady Gregory disapproved of Synge’s relationship with Molly, the Synges for religious and social reasons, Lady Gregory because she did not want directors of the theatre consorting too freely with its employees [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]