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Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded (2020)
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Collins, C. (2020). Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded. Irish Studies Review, 28(4), 411-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2020.1827494

This article demonstrates how two of J.M. Synge’s plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) document and reflect attitudes towards vagrancy and feeble-mindedness in Ireland at the dawn of the twentieth centur... Read More about Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded.