The play focuses on the reception given to Christy Mahon as he wanders into a small Irish village, declaring that he has just murdered his father. Critical acclaim, however, has grown over the years to the point where it is now regarded as the masterwork of one of the most highly regarded Irish playwrights in the modern age. His realistic yet poetic depiction of that incident and the manners and mores of Irish life angered many who thought the play indecent and guilty of promoting negative stereotypes. Inspired by his close observations of the inhabitants of the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland, Synge based the play on a historical incident. J(ohn) M(illington) Synge's The Playboy of the Western World caused riots during its opening week in Dublin in 1907. The Playboy of the Western World INTRODUCTION
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