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082			_a822 _bSYN/R
100	0		_aSynge, J.M.
245	1	0	_aRiders to the sea
260			_aMadras _bEmerald _c1995
300			_a57p.
520			_aRiders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theater Society with Helen Laird playing Maurya. A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishmaan in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge's plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal but relentless cruelty of the sea.
650	0		_aEnglish Literature
650	0		_aMothers and sons
650	0		_aEnglish drama--Irish authors
650	0		_aSeafaring life
650	0		_aDrowning victims
700			_aDeva Prasad S., ed.
942			_cBK
999			_c20326 _d20326