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The Playboy of the Western World is Synge's masterpiece, capturing his major themes in their most complex form. It is difficult today to discern why the play was so controversial, but the playwright managed to offend not only the repressive sexual mores examined in other plays but also the image of the peasant as a rural saint.Christy Mahon, a lad from Kerry, is taken into a pub in Mayo, where he tells and retells, each time embellishing more elaborately, the tale of killing his father. The publican's daughter, Pegeen Mike, quickly becomes enamored of Christy, and the two pledge love. When Mahon's father abruptly appears, Christy is discredited and the same people who earlier valorized him suddenly turn against and punish him......Christy defines tyranny, and although yearning for Pegeen's love, he settles for isolation as an alternative to conformity.
Genre: Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism (fancy, right?)
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