Introduction: On playing with The playboy, by T. R. Whitaker.
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his time, by W. B. Yeats.
Synge's poetic drama, by U. Ellis-Fermor.
A player's reflections on Playboy, by C. Cusack.
The playboy of the Western World, by T. R. Henn.
Synge's Playboy; morality and the hero, by N. Podhoretz.
The making of The playboy, by P. M. Spacks.
Synge's playboy as mock-Christ, by H. D. Pearce.
The composition of The Playboy, by D. H. Greene.
Synge's idiom, by R. Peacock.
The realist basis of surreality, by H. Howarth.
On playing with the audience, by J. L. Styan.
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