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The great realities of death pass through the Riders to the Sea, till the language takes on a kind of simplicity as of written words shrivelling up in a flame. The Playboy of the Western World is a study of character, terrible in its clarity, but never losing the savour of imagination and of the astringency and saltness that was characteristic of his temper.
The others are admired by critics for the strangeness of their diction and the beauty of the nature-pictures scattered through them. His much-discussed Playboy of the Western World has become famous for the rows it has created at home and abroad from its very first production on January 26, 1907.
Yeats had set up before them, and danced themselves into ecstasies round the image of the golden playboy. Mr. Howe, who wrote a sincere and able book on Synge, may be taken as a representative apostle of the Synge cult. He sets before us a god, not a man a creator of absolute beauty and he asks us to accept the common view that The Playboy of the Western World is his masterpiece.
It will be in New York soon, and then look out for a repetition of the Playboy of the Western World scandal. Some of the pictures are very provocative. Naturally the antithesis of old and new was unescapable the chilly September afternoon that I entered the "Roos" gallery. It was some time before I could orient myself optically.
"The playboy," said Babs, staring. "He's a psychopathic personality and his family has millions. They keep him up here out of trouble. He's married." "Too bad if he has millions," said Cochrane. "I wouldn't marry a man with a psychopathic personality!" protested Babs. "Keep away from people in the advertising business, then," Cochrane told her.
He was much shaken by the Playboy riot; on the first night confused and excited, knowing not what to do, and ill before many days, but it made no difference in his work. He neither exaggerated out of defiance nor softened out of timidity.
In part he was invigorated as much as a sleep deprived man could be by having crossed over the border, with his life just hours earlier seeming closed off to him now; in part it was to be with someone who could look beyond the playboy contrivances of art and life to see the soul of the atheist, the abused child beneath the man yes, that was the lure over him but as with all things, such firey hungers came from within and were not ignited by extraneous forces without.
A photograph of her face immediately after its perusal would look like futurist art; but who knows the expression on the face of the poet while preparing this poison? To a sister of an enemy of the author's who disapproved of "The Playboy." Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver, In her guts a galling give her.
Here is the story of 'The Playboy, of 'The Shadow of the Glen; here is the 'ghost on horseback' and the finding of the young man's body of 'Riders to the Sea, numberless ways of speech and vehement pictures that had seemed to owe nothing to observation, and all to some overflowing of himself, or to some mere necessity of dramatic construction.
He may have wanted to be thought of as a nonchalant playboy to the outside world, as newspaper articles smudged him as being, but if one were to examine the portraits of those women whom he both played and portrayed it would be clear that solemn grey empathy, the only real love there was, sullied the reds and oranges of his passions into the pain of empathy not that with each day of adulthood he did not find bits of his sensitivity chafed and weathered away in time like an image of a face sculpted in a mountain.
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