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Playboy of the Western World, The
noun
- a satiric comedy (1907) by John Millington Synge.
Example Sentences
His daughter Christie, named after the central character in “The Playboy of the Western World,” the play he was working on when she was born, has been a director and producer and often worked with him.
All of those masterpieces — “Riders to the Sea,” “The Playboy of the Western World,” “The Well of the Saints,” “The Aran Islands” itself — all written in the span of only seven or eight years.
Two years later she became an ensemble member with the company, where her credits include "The Playboy of the Western World," "The Glass Menagerie" and the title role in "Hedda Gabler."
He may have had, in the back of his mind, as he wrote "The Playboy of the Western World," the thought of chance making a man, of a man finding himself through others believing in him who has no belief in himself but that there is in the play any parable of young Ireland losing its allegiance to a previous ideal of Ireland, I do not for a moment believe.
Playboy of the Western World, The, 23, 26, 31, 32, 33, 75, 149, 163, 164, 166, 170, 171, 176, 178, 180, 182, 184, 196, 218, 228.
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