English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1541 short lesson, about 20 seconds
J. M. Synge and Sean O'Casey
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The idea
J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, first performed at the Abbey in nineteen-oh-seven, about a young man who claims he killed his father, provoked riots. Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy, including Juno and the Paycock, of nineteen twenty-four, set in tenements during civil war, followed.
In practice
Riots at the Abbey; tenement tragedy.
Where people slip
Playboy's riots were in Dublin.
Your place on the trail
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