The Playboy of the Western World/Persons in the Play

4149734The Playboy of the Western World — Persons in the PlayEdmund John Millington Synge

PERSONS IN THE PLAY

Christopher Mahon

Old Mahon, his father, a squatter

Michael James Flaherty (called Michael James), a publican

Margaret Flaherty (called Pegeen Mike), his daughter

Shawn Keogh, her cousin, a young farmer

Widow Quin, a woman of about thirty

Philly Cullen and Jimmy Farrell, small farmers

Sara Tansey, Susan Brady and Honor Blake, village girls

A Bellman

Some Peasants

The action takes place near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo. The first Act passes on an evening of autumn, the other two Acts on the following day.