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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.
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. It enraged Irish playgoers.
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Aug 17, 2015 · There's finely pitched work all round in this revival of J M Synge’s glorious 1907 Irish drama, and the production offers a rattlingly lively evening, says Fiona Mountford.
Nov 24, 2009 · By staging his ethnographic fieldwork in The Playboy, often in exorbitantly unrealistic terms, Synge effectively challenges the primitivism on which he had himself relied in The Aran Islands and develops further the contours of an Irish anthropological modernism by calling into question the way tradition typically furthers the aims of the ...
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.
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J.M. Synges The Playboy of the Western World, which provoked riot when it was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907, is a realistic play dealing with the life of the people of rural Mayo County, Ireland which was totally cut off from the humdrum of the town
