The Well of the Saints

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Irish literature
John Millington Synge
…Sea (1904) and the three-act The Well of the Saints (1905), the language, character, and humor of the Irish peasant, not least the female peasant, were rendered in a manner that broke with earlier comic depictions by Charles Macklin, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and others. But it was with his darkly…
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…Sea (1904) and the three-act The Well of the Saints (1905), the language, character, and humor of the Irish peasant, not least the female peasant, were rendered in a manner that broke with earlier comic depictions by Charles Macklin, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and others. But it was with his darkly…
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