Abstract
I wish I could say the same for 1907, the year that proved as stormy in my fortunes as its predecessor had been prosperous, for it began with the historic uproar over The Playboy of the Western World and ended with the departure of the Fays from the Abbey Theatre and from Ireland.
William G. Fay and Catherine Carswell, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre (London: Rich and Cowan, 1935) pp. 211–22.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
William Boyle (1853–1922), Irish dramatist who was among the first playwrights to write for the Abbey Theatre His plays include The Building Fund(1905)
one of his best-known and most successful plays, The Eloquent Dempsey (1906) and The Mineral Workers (1906). Boyle, resenting The Playboy of the Western World as a misrepresentation of the Irish peasantry, withdrew his own plays from the Abbey Theatre repertoire, but W. G. Fay at length persuaded him to give them back. See William Boyle, ‘Letter to the Editor’, Freeman’s Journal (Dublin) (4 Feb 1907) p. 4 and W. B. Yeats, ‘Mr. Boyle’s Plays’, Evening Telegraph (Dublin) (6 Feb 1907 ) p. 3.
For a record of the press reviews of the first production of The Playboy of the Western World see E. H. Mikhail, J. M. Synge: A Bibliography of Criticism (London: Macmillan, 1975) pp. 133–44.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1977 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Fay, W.G. (1977). The Playboy of the Western World. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) J. M. Synge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03016-3_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03016-3_20
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-03018-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-03016-3
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)