Synge, J.M.

8vo, first regular edition (preceded by the "Theatre edition" lacking preface and frontispiece), frontispiece portrait by Jack B. Yeats, original linen-backed cloth lettered in red on the spine, some light foxing and rubbing

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The Playboy of the Western World, Synge's most famous, controversial, and often-played work, opened on 26 January 1907 with Maire O'Neill (Molly Allgood) as Pegeen Mike, Willie Fay as Christy Mahon, and Sara Algood as the Widow Quin. The play led to riots in Dublin in the next several days. W.B. Yeats returned to Dublin and ensured with the police that the play would run not only the first week it was scheduled, but a second week. Arthur Griffith and Padraic Pearse both announced that the 'Anglo-Irish Theatre' was now dead and that "a truly Irish theatre was now needed."