The Tinker's Wedding / Riders to the Sea / The Shadow of the Glen

This 1911 edition contains three one-act plays by John M. Synge. *The Tinker's Wedding* concerns Michael Byrne, a tinker, and Sarah Casey, a young tinker woman, who seek marriage from a local priest. Sarah pressures Michael to complete a tin wedding ring while they wait for the priest to pass their roadside camp. When the priest arrives, Sarah negotiates with him, eventually offering ten shillings and a tin can as payment. Michael's intoxicated mother Mary arrives, offering the priest porter and singing ribald songs. The excerpt shows Synge's dialogue-driven drama centered on rural Irish tinker life, class tension between poor travelers and clergy, and comic domestic conflict. The volume also includes *Riders to the Sea* and *The Shadow of the Glen*. Synge's prefatory essay argues drama should nourish imagination through humor rather than didacticism, praising Irish country people's comic sensibility.