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• Padraic Colum, ‘Memories of Synge’, in The Literary Review [of New York Evening Post ] II (4 June 1921), pp.1-2.
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• Daniel Corkery, Synge and the Anglo-Irish Literature: A Study (Cork UP; London: Longmans, Green 1931; Cork UP 1966).
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• Thomas R. Whitaker, ed., Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Playboy of the Western World (NJ: Prentice Hall 1969).
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• [Q. auth.,] ‘A Check List of First Editions of Works by John Millington Synge and George William Russell’, TCD Annual Bulletin (1956), pp.4-9.
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• David H. Greene, ‘An Adequate Text of J. M. Synge’, in Modern Language Notes, LXI [Baltimore] (Nov. 1946), pp.466-67.
• Benedict Kiely, ‘Liam O’Flaherty: A Story of Discontent’, in The Month, [n.s.] II (Sept. 1949), c.p.185.[remarks the O’Flaherty was essentially a stranger in mainland Ireland].
• Synge Special Number, The Envoy, No. 16 (March 1951), [includes contribs. by Patrick Kavanagh, Owen Quinn, et al.].
• Irving D. Suss, ‘The Playboy Riots’, in Irish Writing, 18 (March 1952), pp.39-42.
• Donald Davie, ‘On the Poetic Diction of J. M. Synge’, Dublin Magazine, Vol. 27 [new series] (1952), pp.32-8.
• Raymond Williams, ‘J. M. Synge’, in Drama: From Ibsen to Eliot (London: Chatto and Windus 1952), pp.154-74.
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• Herbert Howarth, The Irish Writers 1880-1940 (London: Rockliff 1958) [q.pp.]

• Alan Price, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama (London: Methuen 1961), xii, 236pp.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, ‘The Making of the Playboy’, in Modern Drama IV (Dec. 1961), pp.314-23.
• T. R. Henn, intro. to.“The Playboy of the Western World”, in From the Plays and Poems of J. M. Synge, ed. Henn (London: Methuen & Co. 1963), pp.56-67.
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• Robin Skelton and Ann Saddlemyer, eds., The World of W. B. Yeats (Seattle: Washington UP 1965).
• Ann Saddlemyer, ‘Rabelais Versus à Kempis: The Art of J. M. Synge’, in Komos, 1 (1967), pp.85-96.
• Diane E. Bessie, ‘Little Hound in Mayo’, in Dalhousie Review, XLVIII (Autumn 1968), pp.372-83.
• James F. Kilroy, ‘The Playboy as Poet’, in PMLA, LXXXIII (May 1968), pp.439-42.
• Malcolm Pittock, ‘Riders to the Sea ‘; in English Studies, XLIX (Oct. 1968), pp.445-49.
• Stanley Sultan, ‘A Joycean Look at The Playboy of the Western World ‘, in The Celtic Master, ed. Maurice Harmon [1st Joyce Symposium in Dublin 1967] (Dolmen Press 1969), pp.45-55.
• Paul M. Levitt, ‘The Structural Craftsmanship of J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea’, in Éire-Ireland, 4, 1 (Spring 1969), pp. 53-61.

• Jeanne Flood, ‘The Pre-Aran Writings of J. M. Synge’, in Éire-Ireland, 5, 3 (Autumn 1970), pp.63-80.
• Seán McMahon, ‘Clay and Worms’, in Éire-Ireland, 5, 4 (Winter 1970), pp.116-43.
• James F. Kilroy, The Playboy Riots [Irish Theatre Series, No. 4] (Dublin: Dolmen 1971), 101pp.
• Robin Skelton, The Writings of J. M. Synge (NY: Bobbs-Merrill; London: Thames & Hudson 1971), 190pp.
• Robin Skelton, Remembering Synge [Poetry Ireland Edns.] (Poetry Ireland 1971).
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• Robin Skelton, ‘The Politics of J. M. Synge’, in The Massachusetts Review, 18, 1 (Spring 1977), pp.7-22 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25088702].
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• Mary C. King, The Drama of J. M. Synge (Syracuse UP 1985), 229pp. [see contents].
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• George Watson, ‘J. M. Synge, The Watcher and the Shadows’, in Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm 1979), pp.35-86.

• Anthony Roche, ‘The Two Worlds of Synge’s The Well of Saints’, in The Genres of Irish Literary Revival , ed. Ronald Schleifer (Oklahoma: Pilgrim; Dublin: Wolfhound 1980), pp.27-38.
• Alan Warner, ‘John Millington Synge’ [chap.], in A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981), pp.182-208.
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• Seamus Deane, ‘Synge and Heroism’, in Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature, 1880-1980 (London: Faber & Faber 1985), pp.51-62.
• Nicholas Grene, Synge: A Critical Study (Basinstoke: Macmillan 1975), and Do. [rep. with alterations] (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1985), 202pp.
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• Robin Skelton, Celtic Contraries (Syracuse UP 1990), espec. Chaps 1, 2 & 3.
• Maria Filomena Pereira Rodriguez Louro, “The Drama of J. M. Synge: A Challenge to the Ideology of Myths of Irishness” (PhD Diss., Univ. of Warwick 1991) [Synge as ‘coloniser who refuses’ [after Fanon].
• Daniel J. Casey, ed., Critical Essays on John Millington Synge (NY: G.K. Hall [1994]), ix, 188pp. [infra].
• Declan Kiberd, ‘J. M. Synge - Remembering the Future’, in Inventing Ireland: the Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Jonathan Cape 1995), pp.167-88.
• Deborah Fleming, The Man Who does not Exist: The Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (Michigan UP 1995).
• Joseph Devlin ‘The Source of Synge’s Playboy of the Western World,’, in Notes on Modern Irish Literature, 7, 2 (Fall 1995), pp.5-9.
• Alexander G. Gonzalez, Assessment of the Achievement of J. M. Synge (Conn: Greenwood Press 1996), 250pp.
• René Agostini, ‘J. M. Synge’s Celestial Peasants’, in Rural Ireland, Real Ireland, ed. Jacqueline Genet (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996) [c.p.163.]
• Anthony R. Hale, ‘Framing the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston, John Millington Synge, and the Politics of Aesthetic Ethnography’, in The Comparatist, ‘Postcolonial Theory and Irish Literature’ [Special Issue, guest ed., Michael R. Molino], Vol. XX [Virginia Commonwealth Univ.] (May 1996), pp.50-61.
• Luke Gibbons, ‘Synge, Country and Western: The Myth of the West in Irish and American Culture’ in Transformations in Irish Culture (Field Day/Cork UP 1996), pp.23-35.
• Ronán MacDonald, ‘A Gallous Story or a Dirty Deed?: J. M. Synge and the Art of Guilt’, in Irish Studies Review, 17 (Winter 1996/97), pp.25-30 [reprint in Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O’Casey, Beckett (London: Palgrave 2002)].
• Joseph Devlin, ‘J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World and the Culture of Western Ireland under Late Colonial Rule’, in Modern Drama, 41 (1998), pp.371-84.
• Chiaki Kojima, ‘J. M. Synge and Nationalism: Concerning The Playboy of the Western World’, in The Harp, 13, (1998), pp.50-60 [available at JSTOR - online].

• Declan Kiberd, ‘Synge’s Tristes Tropiques: The Aran Islands’, in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.420-39.
• Mary C. King, ‘Conjuring Past or Future? Versions of Synge’s “Play of ’98”’, in The Irish Review, 26, 1 (Autumn 2000), pp.71-79.
• David Edgar, ‘What’s Coming’, review of W. J. McCormack, Fool of the Family: A Life of J. M. Synge, in London Review of Books (22 March 2001, pp.34-35) [see extract]
• Rob Doggett, ‘In the Shadow of the Glen: Gender, Nationalism, and “A Woman Only”’, in ELH [English Literary History] 67, 4 (Winter 2000), pp.1011-34 [available at JSTOR - online; see summary.]
• Gregory Castle, Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge UP 2001) [Chap. 3, ‘“Synge-on-Aran”: The Aran Islands and the Subject of Revivalist Ethnography’, & Chap. 4, ‘Staging Ethnography’].
• Christopher Morash, ‘A Night at the Theatre 4: The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea [...] Abbey Theatre, Tuesday 29 January 1907’ [chap. in], A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (Cambridge UP 2002), pp.130-38.
• Ronan McDonald, Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O’Casey, Beckett (London: Palgrave 2002), 214pp. [Chap. 2: ‘A Gallous Story or a Dirty Deed: J. M. Synge and the Tragedy of Evasion’, pp.42-84].
• Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution (Westport, NJ: Greenwood Press 2002), xvi, 113pp.
• Paul Murphy, ‘J. M. Synge and the Pitfalls of National Consciousness’, in Theatre Research International, 28 [Cambridge Online Journals] (28 July 2003) [available at TRI - online].
• P. J. Matthews, Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement (Cork UP 2003), 280pp. [whole chap. on Shadw of the Glen.].
• Mary C. King, ‘J. M. Synge, “National” Drama and the post-Protestant Imagination’, in The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama, ed. Shaun Richards (Cambridge UP 2003) [Chap. 6].
• Nelson Ó Ceallaigh Ritschel, ‘In the Shadow of the Glen: Synge, Ostrovsky, and Marital Separation’, in New Hibernia Review, 7, 4 (Winter 2004), pp.85-102 [available at JSTOR - online; see extract].
• James Pethica, ‘“A Young Man’s Ghost”: Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge’, in Irish University Review, 34, 1, Spring/Summer 2004), pp.1-20 [see extract].
• Adrian Frazier, Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories (Carysfort Press (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2004), xiv, 182pp.
• Ben Levitas, ‘Mirror up to Nurture: J. M. Synge and His Critics’, in Modern Drama, 47, 4 [Special Irish Issue, ed. Karen Fricker & Brian Singleton] (Winter 2004), pp.542-84.
• Colm Tóibín, ed., Synge: A Celebration (Carysfort Press 2005), 179pp. [contribs. incl. Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Fintan O’Toole, Vincent Woods; available at Google Books - online; see also review].
• George Cusack, ‘“In the gripe of the ditch”: Nationalism, famine and The Playboy of the Western World’, in Hungry Words. Images of Famine in the Irish Canon, ed., Cusack & Sarah Gross (Dublin: IAP 2006), pp.133-58.
• Andrea Mayr, The Aran Islands and Anglo-Irish Literature: a Literary History and Selected Studies, with a preface by Otto Rauchbauer (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2008) [sect. on Synge].
• Mary Burke, “Tinkers”: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford: OUP 2009), 344pp. [launched at Synge Summer School, June 2009].
• George Cusack, The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J. M. Synge (London: Routledge 2009), 210pp.
• Barry Monahan, Ireland’s Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (Dublin; IAP 2009), viii, 279pp., ill. [chap: ‘John Millington Synge and Ireland / Brian Desmond Hurst’].

• Nicholas Grene, ‘J. M. Synge’, in W. B. Yeats in Context, ed. David Holdeman & Ben Levitas (Cambridge UP 2010) [Chap. 13].
• Colm Tóibín, ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Synge and His Family’, in New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families (London: Viking [Penguin] 2012), pp.78-110.
• Alex Davis, ‘J. M. Synge’s Vita Vecchia and Aucassin et Nicolette’, in Notes and Queries, 58, 1 (Oxford 2011), pp.125-27.
• Alan Titley, ‘The Irish Language and Synge’, in Nailing Theses: Selected Essays (Belfast: Lagan Press 2011), pp.130-44 [see extract].
• Patrick Lonergan, ed., Synge and his Influences: Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2011), xvii, 309pp. [see contents].
• Anthony Roche, Synge and the Making of Modern Irish Drama (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2013), pp.162-63.
• Colm Tóibín, ‘The mystery of Inis Meáin’, in The Guardian ([Sat] 12 May 2007) [see full-text copy].
• Mary Burke: Tinkers: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford OUP 2009), xi, 329pp.
  James Little, ‘Home, the Asylum, and the Workhouse in The Shadow of the Glen’, in Irish University Review, 46:2 (2016), pp.260-74.
• Christopher Collins, Theatre and Residual Culture: J. M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (London: Palgrave 2016), 300pp.

See also Nicholas Grene, ‘Reality Check: Authenticity from Synge to McDonagh’, Lecture at Univ. of N. Carolina, English Department (2 Dec. 2004), printed in Munira H. Mutran & Laura P. Z. Izarra, eds., Irish Studies in Brazil, Sao Paolo Univ.: Associação Editorial Humanitas 2005), pp.69-88, espec. pp.71ff.

• Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, The Splendid Years: Recollections of Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh: As told to Edward Kenny (Dublin: James Duffy 1955).
• Lady Augusta Gregory, Our Irish Theatre. Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1972.
• Hogan, Robert & James Kilroy, The Abbey Theatre: The Years of Synge, 1905-1909 (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1978) [Vol. 3 in The Modern Irish Drama: A Documentary History (Dolmen 1975-78), 3 vols.]
• Morash, Christopher. A History of Irish Theatre: 1601-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Fitz-Simon, Christopher. The Abbey Theatre: Ireland’s National Theatre, The First 100 Years ( London: Thames & Hudson 2003).
• Irish Theatre on Tour, ed. Nicholas Grene & Chris Morash (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2005), [incls. John P. Harrington, ‘The Abbey in America: The Real Thing’, pp.35-50].