Eugene O'Neill: A collection of criticism (Contemporary studies in literature)

EUGENE O'NEILL

Literature & Fiction

McGraw=Hill

Ah, Wilderness! and Days Without End.

JONATHAN CAPE.

Eugene O’Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O’Neill’s darkest and most nihilistic play. In the half century since, The Iceman Cometh has gained enormously in stature, and many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama.  The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.

The Iceman Cometh

Dramas & Plays

Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night isregarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York in April. “By common consent, Long Day’s Journey into Night isEugene O’Neill’s masterpiece. . . . The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us.” —Harold Bloom, from the foreword “Only an artist of O’Neill’s extraordinary skill and perception can draw the curtain on the secrets of his own family to make you peer into your own. Long Day’s Journey into Night is the most remarkable achievement of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.” —Jose Quintero “The play is an invaluable key to its author’s creative evolution. It serves as the Rosetta Stone of O’Neill’s life and art.” —Barbara Gelb “The definitive edition of a ‘play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood,’ as O’Neill described it in dedicating it to his wife, Carlotta.” —Boston Globe

Long Day's Journey into Night

Yale University Press

A play about a family of four psychologically disturbed people reveals aspects of the author's own life.

Long Day s Journey into Night: Second Edition

Excerpt from The Hairy Ape: Anna Christie; The First Man Anna Christie was first produced by Arthur Hopkins at the Vanderbilt Theatre; The Hairy Ape was first produced by The Provincetown Players, 133 Macdougal Street; and The First Man was first produced at The Neighborhood Playhouse, 466 Grand Street, New York City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Hairy Ape: Anna Christie; The First Man (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

"Spellbinding--soaring theater--. For reasons that remain mysterious, it seems especially moving today."--The New York Times Eugene O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a seedy, skid row saloon in 1912, peopled by society's failures: worn-out anarchists, failed con artists, drifters, whores, pimps, and informers. The pipe-dreaming drunks of Harry Hope's bar numb themselves with rotgut gin and make grandiose plans, while waiting for the annual appearance of the big-spending, fast-talking salesman, Hickey. But this year's visit fails to bring the expected good times, as a changed Hickey tries to rouse the barflies from their soothing stupor with a proselytizing message of salvation through self-knowledge. Considered by many to be the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's finest work, The Iceman Cometh exposes the human need for illusion as an antidote to despair. The recent gripping, critically acclaimed Broadway production, starring Kevin Spacey, has highlighted anew the subversive genius of O'Neill's play.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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The Emperor Jones

Appleton, Crofts Century

The Later Plays of Eugene O'Neill

United States

Modern Library College Editions, 1967

The second of O'Neill's full-length plays to be staged is an autobiographical comedy about a Swedish seaman and his daughter and was heavily revised by the playwright, to become "Anna Christie"

Chris Christophersen

Random House]

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Eugene O'Neill: A collection of criticism (Contemporary studies in literature)

Ah, Wilderness! and Days Without End.

The Iceman Cometh

Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day s Journey into Night: Second Edition

The Hairy Ape: Anna Christie; The First Man (Classic Reprint)

The Iceman Cometh

The Emperor Jones

The Later Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Chris Christophersen