"It's Pegeen I'm seeking only, and what'd I care if you brought me a drift of chosen females, standing in their shifts itself maybe, from this place to the Eastern World."

The first performance of Synge's Playboy of the Western World caused a furor in the repressed Dublin of January 1907.  'The first two acts were well received, so much so that Lady Gregory sent W.B. Yeats a telegram in Scotland, "Play great success," but Act Three provoked such an uproar that she sent off another telegram, 'Audience broke up in disorder at the word shift.'

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