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The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo during the early 1900s.
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The Playboy of the Western World, comedy in three acts by J.M. Synge, published and produced in 1907. It is a masterpiece of the Irish literary renaissance. This most famous of Synge’s works fused the patois of ordinary Irish villagers with Synge’s sophisticated rhetoric.
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The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by the Irish playwright and folklorist John Millington Synge in 1907. Set in a pub in western Ireland in the early 1900s, the play tells the story of a young man who attains a hero-like status among the local villagers by telling a rousing story about having murdered his father.
Playboy of the Western World is a dramatic poem or a poetic drama. Both the poetry and the drama are invoked to present the mystery of language. For Synge the peasantry of Aran incarnated that simplicity, dignity, and independence of mind which contrasted with bourgeois conventional Christian society, and which was the severe expression of Real ...
Synge is now generally considered the foremost playwright of his generation, with The Playboy of the Western World looked on as his masterpiece.
The Playboy of the Western World is a comedy written by Irish playwright John M. Synge. The play was first produced in 1907 at the Abbey Theatre, or the National Theatre of Ireland. Although his work was largely criticized during his lifetime, Synge is one of Ireland’s most famous 20th-century playwrights.
