| J.M. Synge (18611909). The Playboy of the Western World. 1911. |
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- CHRISTOPHER MAHON
- OLD MAHON, (his father, a squatter)
- MICHAEL JAMES FLAHERTY, called MICHAEL JAMES (a publican.)
- MARGARET FLAHERTY, called PEGEEN MIKE (his daughter)
- WIDOW QUIN (a woman of about thirty)
- SHAWN KEOGH (her cousin, a young farmer)
- PHILLY CULLEN and JIMMY FARRELL (small farmers)
- SARA TANSEY, SUSAN BRADY, and HONOR BLAKE (village girls)
- A BELLMAN
- SOME PEASANTS
- The action takes place near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo. The first Act passes on an evening of autumn, the other two Acts on the following day.
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