The Tinker's Wedding: Riders to the Sea and The Shadow of the Glen is a collection of three one-act plays written by John Millington Synge and published in 1904. The first play, The Tinker's Wedding, is a satirical comedy that follows the story of a tinker, Michael Byrne, who wants to marry his girlfriend, Mary, despite the objections of her father. The second play, Riders to the Sea, is a tragedy that depicts the lives of a family living on the Aran...