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John Millington Synge, Christopher Collins, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens, Matthew Nichols: Playboy of the Western World (2021, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

112 pages

English language

Published April 11, 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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978-1-350-15549-7
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In writing THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers. A certain number of the phrases I employ I have heard also from herds and fishermen along the coast from Kerry to Mayo, or from beggar-women and balladsingers nearer Dublin; and I am glad to acknowledge how much I owe to the folk imagination of these fine people.

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