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The Playboy of the Western World, a play (1907) by Irish dramatist J. M. Synge. This, Synge's best-known and most controversial work, is the story of Christy Mahon, who flees from his domineering father to a village in Mayo. There he impresses the inhabitants, particularly the women, with his exaggerated tales, claiming to have killed his father with a single blow. His period of glory is cut short, however, by the arrival in the village of his alleged victim, who suffered no more than a blow on the head from his son.
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