The Playboy of the Western World

Author: J. M. Synge
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Playboy of the Western World" (A Comedy in Three Acts) by J. M. Synge. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Playboy of the Western World

Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
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 and enraged Irish playgoers with its satire of Irish braggadocio. The play follows the mercurial rise and fall of the character Christy Mahon, whose self-reported murder of his father earns him much admiration until his father shows up alive and in pursuit of his cowardly son. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.

The Playboy of the Western World

Author: Christopher Collins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317271882
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon On the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of Dublin. How did one play provoke this? Christopher Collins addresses The Playboy ’s satirical treatment of illusion and realism in light of Ireland’s struggle for independence, as well as Synge’s struggle for artistic expression. By exploring Synge’s unpublished diaries, drafts and notebooks, he seeks to understand how and why the play came to be. This volume invites the reader behind the scenes of this inflammatory play and its first performances, to understand how and why Synge risked everything in the name of art.

Playboys of the Western World

Author: Adrian Fraser
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781904505068
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Essays on the production and performances of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World including a study of the acclaimed Druid production directed by Garry Hynes.

The Playboy of the West Indies

Author: Mustapha Matura
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786826461
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Based on J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. Playboy of the West Indies opened at the Oxford Playhouse in 1984 and subsequently toured the UK finishing at the Tricycle Theatre in London. It has also enjoyed huge success in the United States, most notably at The Court Theatre, Chicago; Arena Stage, Washington; New Jersey and Yale Rep. The Court Theatre Chicago's production was nominated for four Jefferson Awards. There was an extremely successful revival of the play at the Lincoln Center, New York in 1993. Mustapha also wrote the television adaptation, screened on BBC2 in 1985. The play was recently revived at the Tricycle Theatre and the Nottingham Playhouse.

In the Shadow of the Glen

Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The Playboy of the Western World

Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The Aran Islands

Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aran Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version

Author: Bisi Adigun
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815657056
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2008. The new version is set in a contemporary Dublin pub and features the character of a Nigerian asylum-seeker in the lead role. Under the coauthorship of Bisi Adigun, artistic director of Arambe Productions—Ireland’s first African theater company—and best-selling, Booker Prize–winning novelist Roddy Doyle, the play engages with issues of race and immigration in modern Ireland and, when first released, aimed to be a model for intercultural collaboration. This critical edition features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the play’s themes, cultural significance, critical reception, and the legal case that cut short its successful production run. Though the play was first produced over a decade ago, the topic of migration has only increased in its global importance over that time, and this adaptation of Playboy remains a popular touchstone among scholars of Irish theater and immigration.

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

Author: P. J. Mathews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.