Abstract
John Millington Synge's first play is in many respects one of his most important works. It embodies that “dialectical synthesis of the naturalistic tradition and the symbolistic reaction” which, as Mr. Harry Levin has recently pointed out, Synge stated as being the great problem to be solved by the artist of his time. Criticism of The Shadow of the Glen has been mostly concerned with proving that its Irishness is spurious. Very few critics have seen that the most interesting thing about the play is Synge's happy facility in combining the realistic with the symbolistic.
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