ENG 342RW Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Playboy, Aran Islands
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It takes place in the early years of the twentieth century in the county mayo area of ireland. The setting is a pub owned by michael james. Flaherty and has as its central character christy mahon. Christy is a young man from a farm who tells the patrons at the pub that he has killed his father. Flaherty"s daughter, pegeen, a barmaid at the establishment, becomes taken with. The play is known for its use of poetic language and irish dialects. In a preface to the play, synge lauds the irish people for having such a colorful language: as act i begins, pegeen is in the pub tending to plans for her pending wedding to. Her father is not present as he is attending a wake. When shawn enters, he talks of an unsettling darkness outside, prompting a nervous pegeen to ask him to stay with her.
