Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 094045050X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1007 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Nice Collection from an American Icon R. R. Harris I bought this book to study how the author crafted and used dialogue and there, I was not disappointed. However, several of the plays which I was reading for the first time, simply were not that interesting nor entertaining. Perhaps they were more intriguing when presented live on stage, when characters brought scenes to life and evoked moods of everyday hope tinged with despair and all the bits and pieces that forged familial and romantic relationships.Of course, these are only my observations an. The culmination of the career of America's greatest playwrighting genius O'Neill's brilliance and his place as America's foremost playwright locks into place, if it hadn't already, with this third volume of plays from the last decade of his writing life. Three of the plays presented here (The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten) are utter masterpieces, works of art so powerful that they rank among the great accomplishments in English letters. Two other plays (Ah, Wilderness! and A Touch of the Poet) are great plays. A third (Mor. Best of the Best RideMystery This is my favorite collection of Eugene O'Neill's plays. Simply put you get The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and so much more. These plays are collected from the time he disowned his daughter Oona due to the fact she married 54 year old Charlie Chaplin, up to Eugene's death. Iceman Cometh is splendid play that teaches us about dreams and hopes for tomorrow while Long Day's Journey Into Night takes us into the frayed relationships of a family. One could say it is an autobiography
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. From Library Journal O'Neill specialist Bogard gathers together for the first time the full canon of O'Neill's drama50 plays plus his only short story, "Tomorrow." The texts, arranged chronologically by the year they were written, incorporate O'Neill's final revisions and contain notes and a chronology of his life. Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. No serious literature collection is complete without the full set of O'Neill
From this point on, O'Neill's work falls roughly into three phases: the early plays, written from 1914 to 1921 (The Long Voyage Home, The Moon of the Caribbees, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie); a variety of full-length plays for Broadway (Desire Under the Elms; Great God Brown; Ah, Wilderness!); and the last, great plays, written between 1938 and his death (The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey In