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John Millington Synge - The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

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Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.

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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.

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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

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May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.

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John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge

Born: April 16, 1871
Died: March 24, 1909 (aged 37)
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