In the Shadow of the Glen
- In the Shadow of the Glen
"In the Shadow of the Glen" is a one-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed in Molesworth Hall, Dublin on October 8, 1903. It was the first play by Synge to be performed on stage. It is set in an isolated cottage in County Wicklow during the early 1900s.
Important Characters
*Daniel Burke, an elderly farmer
*Nora Burke, his young wife
*Michael Dara, a youthful shepherd
*A Tramp, a tramp
Plot Synopsis
A tramp seeking shelter in the isolated Burke farmhouse finds Nora tending to the corpse of Dan. Nora goes out to find Michael, and Dan reveals to the tramp that his death is a mere ruse. He plays dead again when Nora and Michael return, but leaps up in protest when Michael proposes to Nora. Dan kicks Nora out to wander the roads, and she leaves with the tramp, who promises her a life of freedom.
Quotes
*"...isn't a dead man itself more company than to be sitting alone, and hearing the winds crying, and you not knowing on what thing your mind would stay?" - Nora"Maybe cold would be no sign of death with the like of him, for he was always cold, every day since I knew him" - Nora
"for what good is a bit of a farm with cows on it, and sheep on the back hills, when you do be sitting looking out from a door the like of that door, and seeing nothing but the mists rolling down the bog, and the mists again, and they rolling up the bog, and hearing nothing but the wind crying out in the bits of broken trees were left from the great storm, and the streams roaring with the rain."-Nora
References
*Synge, J.M.. The Complete Plays. 1st. New York: Vintage Books, 1935.
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