The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

Large Format for easy reading. Although from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin. Set in a cottage in County Mayo (on the North-West coast of Ireland), it tells the story of a young man supposedly running away after having killed his father. He arrives at the cottage, and the locals are more interested in vicariously enjoying his story than in condemning his morality.

An informed and fresh perspective on a well-known canonical play.. by a leading scholar on Synge. * Dr Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *
A clear and intelligently mapped out guide to a canonical Anglo-Irish drama, which provides all the necessary religious, social and cultural information to ensure students of all backgrounds can access the text * Jenny Stevens *

John Millington Synge (1871-1909) is widely regarded as the greatest ever Irish dramatist. The lives of the people of Connemara and the Aran Islands were brought to life through his six great plays: In The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905), The Playboy of the Western World (1907), The Tinkers' Wedding (1908), and his unfinished mythological drama Deirdre of the Sorrows (performed posthumously in 1910).

Christopher Collins is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. He received his Ph.D from Trinity College Dublin and works primarily on the plays of J.M. Synge. His publications include contributing to The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance and J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.

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ISBN 13	9781350155497
ISBN 10	1350155497
Title	The Playboy of the Western World
Author	John Millington Synge
Series	Student Editions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2021-01-14
Number of pages	112
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