The playboy of the Western world
By: J.M. Synge
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Drama
Description: 'The Playboy of the Western World' offended audiences when first produced in 1907, on account of its 'immodest' references to Irish womanhood and aroused a prolonged and bitter controversy which lasted until the author's death in 1909.