"In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in complete mystery. The creative literary activity of this epoch likewise betokens on the part of the Greeks an increasingly higher level of self-understanding and self-consciousness, in the best sense of the word. At this time appeared a group of lyric poets, who had looked deeply within their own natures, and through the vehicle of their poetry, made abundantly evident how thoroughly they understood the essential character of man's inner being. In Greek tragedy as we now have it we meet a fully developed dramatic form....The influence of tragedy on classic comedy is evident in the increasing preoccupation with subjects that are utopian or timeless, [while] the traditional satire on contemporary events and personages recedes more and more into the background."-- from the Introduction, by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr.

Seven Famous Greek Plays

Literature & Fiction

O’Neill, Eugene

Oates, Whitney

Dramas & Plays

Random House, Inc.

The text of the 1921 drama about the ambitions, rise to power, and moral disintegration of a black man on a West Indian island is followed by questions encouraging a comparative analysis of the stage play and its cinematic treatment

Emperor Jones

History & Criticism

PRENTICE/HALL

A selection of early work—including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays—from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic Included in this volume are seven one-act plays (The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, Ile, Where the Cross Is Made, and The Rope), and five full-length plays (Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape), all written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. The majority of these plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism—Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Also included in this unique collection is the little-known and highly autobiographical play The Straw, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.

Early Plays (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Penguin Publishing Group

Arguing that the 1964 edition of Eugene O'Neill's unfinished play More Stately Mansions, prepared after the playwright's death, was missing a substantial amount of material that O'Neill intended for inclusion, Martha Bower here presents an entirely new edition of the play with this material--dialogue, character description, an entire scene, the epilogue, and large parts of other scenes--restored. Published to coincide with the centennial of O'Neill's birth, it will stand as an important contribution to O'Neill scholarship.

More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition

Oxford University Press

Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

This collection of all O'Neill's published plays, including many which have been out of print for years, marks the centenary of his birth. 45 plays are included from his early sea-plays, his varied experimental period to the dramas of his maturity. O'Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and four Pulitzer prizes including a posthumous award for "Long Day's Journey into Night". He is thought by some to have revolutionized the American theatre. John Lahr's introduction examines O'Neill from a psychological perspective and includes some discussion of his early childhood.

The Collected Plays of Eugene O'Neill

JONATHAN CAPE.

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Stewart Kidd company in 1921 in 65 pages; Subjects: Drama / General; Drama / American; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Drama;

The Emperor Jones: Three Plays

The Hairy Ape, [and] Anna Christie and The First ManAnna ChristieFirst Man

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

O'Neill, Eugene, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Yale University Press

Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy. This adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by one of America's greatest playwrights is a landmark in the history of theatre.

MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Jonathan Cape Paperback)

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