![]() Shawn flees before the men can trap him, but quickly returns to tell them that he saw a face looking up out of the ditch.Ĭhristy Mahon, frightened and dirty, enters the pub. Michael James demands Shawn stay with Pegeen, but Shawn refuses, fearing the disapproval of the parish priest. They are drunk, and have not yet left for the wake. ![]() Michael James enters, along with his friends Philly and Jimmy. Shawn then reveals that he heard a man outside, wailing from a ditch. However, he offers to send the Widow Quin to stay with her. Shawn refuses, claiming it would be improper for him to be alone with her until they are wed. Pegeen asks him to stay with her, since the night makes her nervous as well. Shawn Keogh enters, remarking upon the frightening darkness outside. ![]() ![]() Her father, Michael James, has left her for the evening, while he attends a wake. Pegeen Mike, daughter to the alehouse owner, sits alone in the pub, writing a letter to order supplies for her upcoming wedding to Shawn Keogh. The entire play is set in a public house (or pub) "on the wild coast of Mayo," outside a village in Northwestern Ireland, circa 1907 (113). In a short preface to his play, Synge emphasizes a link between the imagination of the Irish country people and their speech itself, which is "rich and living." He credits the Irish people for having such a "fiery," "magnificent" language, and further credits himself for having both the presence of mind and poetic vision to recognize those virtues. ![]()
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