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What they convey of him (when he is not reproving her or remonstrating with her, as he does in the early months of their relationship) is the love of nature, the poetic language, the bittersweet irony, the elemental quality of emotion, that we know from the plays. His concern for his craft is seen as he struggles with \u003ci\u003eThe Playboy\u003c\/i\u003e. (\"Parts of it are not structurally strong or good. I have been all this time trying to get over weak situations by strong writing, but now I find it won't do, and I am at my wit's end.\") Synge was quite unperturbed by the violent outrage and near-riots the play provoked. (\"Now we'll be talked about. We're an event in the history of the Irish stage,\" he wrote cheerily.)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As his illness progresses, following operations in 1907 and 1908, there is great poignancy in the gradual abating of references to marriage plans and in the shift of salutation from \"Dearest Changeling\" to \"My dearest child.\" After Synge's death his friends and biographers discreetly avoided mention of Allgood, who under her stage name of Maire O'Neill became one of the leading actresses of the Irish theater and lived until 1952. His letters to her have not been published before, except for the few quoted in Greene and Stephens's 1959 biography. 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