Download or read book In the Shadow of the Glen written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synge's first play, originally performed in 1903, is a bleak one-act set in an isolated farmhouse in Ireland. A tramp wanders into what seems a tragic scene: a wife mourning her dead, and considerably older, husband. But when the wife leaves to find her lover, and the supposedly dead man returns to life, events take an unexpected turn.