Cuando en 1940 el dramaturgo Eugene ONeill perdió a su perro Blemie, decidió escribir este breve texto con el fin de encontrar consuelo para él y su esposa.
" Aquí está el vendedor de hielo " fue escrita a finales de la década de los años treinta, periodo marcado por una incierta situación social, después del hundimiento de la bolsa neo-yorquina. " Hughie...
"[..] Bloody Dutchman! To-night on the for'ard square. I'll bet on Dutchy. He packa da wallop, I tella you! Shut up, Wop! No fightin', maties. We're all chums, ain't we? [A voice starts bawling a song.] "Beer, beer, glorious...
From the pioneering and groundbreaking Provincetown Players comes this collection of innovative and revolutionary plays. Included in the collection is Pendleton King's thought provoking drama concerning drug addition, Eugene O'Neill's one character...
This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones , and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama.
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded 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,...
"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."--from the foreword by Harold Bloom...
Ah, Wilderness ! and Days Without End. Two Plays by Eugene OâNeill. Scenes: ACT ONE Sitting-room of the Miller home in a large small-town in Connecticut early morning, July 4th, 1906. ACT TWO Dining-room of the Miller home evening of...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts.
A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, Long Day's Journey into Night is an intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of the author's own family - a play so acutely personal that he...
This collection of thirty years of interviews with America's only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing.
Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood',...