# The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

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- Book: [The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays](https://www.bookquiver.com/jm-synge/the-playboy-of-the-western-world-and-other-plays) ([The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jm-synge/the-playboy-of-the-western-world-and-other-plays.md))
- Authors: [J.M. Synge](https://www.bookquiver.com/jm-synge), [Edna O’Brien](https://www.bookquiver.com/edna-obrien), [Robert Welch](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-welch)
- Publisher: Signet
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-11-0115-400-7
- Published: 2006-03-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Though he completed only five plays in his short lifetime, J. M. Synge, co-founder of the Abbey Theater, ranks as one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights. Rescuing the Irish peasant from a romanticized...