by J. M. Synge, William Butler Yeats, Sean O'Casey · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140188783
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«The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays» is the anthology of Irish theatre by J. M. Synge, William Butler Yeats and Sean O'Casey, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In the title play, a stranger who boasts of killing his father becomes a hero in an Irish village. The other two pieces feature a countess seeking to save her tenants from famine and a supernatural rooster that bursts into a submissive village. They portray social and religious tensions of the Ireland of their time.
This 1997 edition belongs to the Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin series and includes an introduction by W. A. Armstrong.
It is intended for fans of classical theatre and twentieth-century Irish literature, with an interest in modern drama.
Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklores. As a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival during the early 20th century, he is widely regarded by critics and scholars as the most prolific playwright in Irish literature of the Edwardian era, and by several of his peers, among them William Butler Yeats.
