《西方世界的花花公子》(The Playboy of the Western World)是辛格最成功、最有名的喜剧,也被认为是20世纪最优秀的爱尔兰剧本。 此剧描写一个农村青年去到一个陌生的村庄,因吹嘘自己刚刚劈开了自己父亲的脑袋而村里的人当成了英雄,爱慕他的妇女更是蜂拥而来。但是,后来他的父亲却活着出现在了那个村庄…… 在剧中,辛格纵横恣肆地讽刺了爱尔兰人喜欢自夸和美化暴徒的倾向,在都柏林阿比剧院首演时,曾引起观众骚动,1911年在美国纽约首演时也曾引起爱尔兰裔美国人的骚动,随后在波士顿和费城上演时又引起了进一步的骚动。
此为爱尔兰剧作家的一部三幕剧,首次于1907年1月26日的都柏林的一家戏院上演。场景设置在十九世纪二十年代早期位于爱尔兰西海岸的公共房间。讲述了一个年轻人从农场逃跑,并声称自己杀害了自己的父亲。当地人对他的故事非常感兴趣,并没有因为他的不道德而谴责他。这个故事因为他使用了诗一般发人深省的语言而变得非常著名。
The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo (on the west coast of Ireland) during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming he killed his father. The locals are more interested in vicariously enjoying his story than in condemning the immorality of his murderous deed, and in fact, Christy's tale captures the romantic attention of the bar-maid Pegeen Mike, the daughter of Flaherty. The play is best known for its use of poetic, evocative language as Synge celebrates the lyrical speech of the peasant Irish.
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