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The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Book

J M Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This work is a collection of Synge's plays. It includes: 'Riders to the Sea'; 'The Shadow of the Glen'; 'The Tinker's Wedding'; 'The Well of the Saints'; 'The Play of the Western World'; and, 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'.Read More

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  • Foyles

    A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the Devil. The sleepy parish of Nyadnanave sees a vision of a cockerel that dares the inhabitants to break the shackles of Church and State. All these plays were met with moral outrage and rioting in their native Ireland.Yeats's 'The Countess Cathleen' (1892), J. M. Synge's 'The Playboy of the Western World' (1907) and O'Casey's 'Cock-a-doodle Dandy' (1949) emerged from a period of traumatic change for Ireland. While the plays bear witness to the immmense social upheavals of the turn of the twentieth century, they also represent a new age of Irish drama that rose from the turmoil, and their lessons ring true to this day.

  • Blackwell

    Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent performances, and it seems unlikely...

  • 0140188789
  • 9780140188783
  • J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, W B Yeats
  • 30 July 2009
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
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