The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays - (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by J M Synge & William Butler Yeats & Sean O'Casey
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This selection first published in Penguin Books as Classic Irish drama, 1964"--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> </p><b>The plays that helped make modern Ireland <p/></b>Riots greeted the first performance of <b>The Playboy of the Western World</b> 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 that much of the actual play could have been heard in the uproar. Synge's <b>The Playboy of the Western World</b>, with the two other plays in this volume, Yeats's <b>The Countess Cathleen</b> (1892) and O'Casey's <b>Cock-a-doodle Dandy</b> (1949), mark vital stages in the rich explosion of Irish drama that first made itself heard at the turn of the century and gathered momentum during the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Civil War. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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