Playboys of the Western World

Playboys of the Western World
Author: Adrian Fraser
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781904505068

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 Western World

The Playboy of the Western World
Author: J. M. Synge
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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—A New Version

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version
Author: Bisi Adigun
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0815657056

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 Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World
Author: John Millington Synge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350155500

This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic devices; production history; critical reception; academic debate; and ideas for further study. It also includes interviews with practitioners involved in major recent productions of the play. Described by J.M. Synge as "a comedy, an extravaganza, made to use", The Playboy of the Western World is one of the most iconic plays to have come out of Ireland in the 20th century and is today recognised as a staple of the dramatic canon. It is published as a new Student Edition, which offers a 21st century lens on a play over 100 years old. When it was first performed in 1907 at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Synge's play provoked uproar and was interrupted more than once by the police. Today, we recognise its importance in making Irish drama the force it became in the early 20th century.

The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World
Author: Christopher Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1317271882

‘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.

The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World
Author: John M. Synge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781297239571

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John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World

John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The making of The playboy / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- The dramatic imagination / Alan Price -- A hard birth / Donna Gerstenberger -- Character and symbol / Robi n Skelton -- Approaches to The playboy / Nicholas Grene -- The playboy as antidrama / Bruce M. Bigley -- The gallous story and the dirty deed / Edward Hirsch -- The living world for text / Hugh Kenner.

The Playboy of the West Indies

The Playboy of the West Indies
Author: Mustapha Matura
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1786826461

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.

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922
Author: Joseph Valente
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0252090322

This study aims to supply the first contextually precise account of the male gender anxieties and ambivalences haunting the culture of Irish nationalism in the period between the Act of Union and the founding of the Irish Free State. To this end, Joseph Valente focuses upon the Victorian ethos of manliness or manhood, the specific moral and political logic of which proved crucial to both the translation of British rule into British hegemony and the expression of Irish rebellion as Irish psychomachia. The influential operation of this ideological construct is traced through a wide variety of contexts, including the career of Ireland's dominant Parliamentary leader, Charles Stewart Parnell; the institutions of Irish Revivalism--cultural, educational, journalistic, and literary; the writings of both canonical authors (Yeats, Synge, Gregory, and Joyce) and subcanonical authors (James Stephens, Patrick Pearse, Lennox Robinson); and major political movements of the time, including suffragism, Sinn Fein, Na Fianna E Éireann, and the Volunteers. The construct of manliness remains very much alive today, underpinning the neo-imperialist marriage of ruthless aggression and the sanctities of duty, honor, and sacrifice. Mapping its earlier colonial and postcolonial formations can help us to understand its continuing geopolitical appeal and danger.