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J.M. Synge's first play to be produced in Dublin was rejected as a slander on Irish womanhood, and his major drama, The Playboy of the Western World, caused rioting inside and outside the theatre. With the energy of a powerful reticence, he told the newspapers that he did not care a rap for the rioters and retired for a week to bed. But he was denounced as an Ascendancy eavesdropper, and his work was rejected by nationalists because it was written in English.
J.M. Synge's first play to be produced in Dublin was rejected as a slander on Irish womanhood, and his major drama, The Playboy of the Western World, caused rioting inside and outside the theatre. With the energy of a powerful reticence, he told the newspapers that he did not care a rap for the rioters and retired for a week to bed. But he was denounced as an Ascendancy eavesdropper, and his work was rejected by nationalists because it was written in English.
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