Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Adrian Frazier: Introduction - PLAYBOYS OF THE PAST - Paige Reynolds: The First Playboy - Ophelia Byrne: Belfast Said 'No' to The Playboy - John P. Harrington: The Playboy IN the Western World: J. M. Synge's Play in America - Adrian Frazier: 'Quaint Pastoral Numbskulls': Siobhán McKenna's Playboy Film - Nicholas Grene: Two London Playboys: Before and After Druid - Roundtable Discussion with Garry Hynes - PLAYBOY 2004: EIGHT VIEWS - Ophelia Byrne: Terrible Truths, of our own making - Adrian Frazier: Postmodern Paddywhackery -Nicholas Grene: Redesigning The Playboy - John P. Harrington: Poetry, Romance, Clay, Worms - Mary C. King: Gallous Stories and Dirty Deeds - Bill Mc Cormack: Notes from the Borderland - Lionel Pilkington: The Playboy of the Western World as Cultural Event - Paige Reynolds: Separate Spheres and Celebrity Casting - Index - Contributors.