The two greatest influences in the writing of this play were the author's visit to the Aran Islands, particularly Inishmaan, and his discovery of tales of a "second sight" heard among Celtic races.
The two greatest influences in the writing of this play were the author's visit to the Aran Islands, particularly Inishmaan, and his discovery of tales of a "second sight" heard among Celtic races. The beginning of this one-act drama is a conversation between sisters Nora and Cathleen. The mother Maurya and brother Bartley soon enter and the conversation focuses on the body of a man washed up in Donegal. FTP, identify this 1904 drama, one of the most famous works of John Millington Synge.
The two greatest influences in the writing of this play were the author's visit to the Aran Islands, particularly Inishmaan, and his discovery of tales of a "second sight" heard among Celtic races.
{Riders to the Sea}