The most infamous line in this drama occurred after the widow Quin asks for some starch and Margaret replies, "And you without a white shift or a shirt in your whole family since the drying of the flood.
The most infamous line in this drama occurred after the widow Quin asks for some starch and Margaret replies, "And you without a white shift or a shirt in your whole family since the drying of the flood. I've no starch for the like of you." Margaret is the play's protagonist's second cousin and he wins her hand in marriage in a mule race after his arrival in Mayo. Centering on the patricidal Christy Mahon whose nickname gives the play its title --for 10 points-- name this J.M. Synge drama whose reference to a women's undergarment caused a riot.
The most infamous line in this drama occurred after the widow Quin asks for some starch and Margaret replies, "And you without a white shift or a shirt in your whole family since the drying of the flood.
{Playboy of the Western World} (FYI: a shift is a woman's chemise)