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Three Great Plays

Three Great Plays

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and four Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. This volume includes three of the writer’s early, influential works:
The Emperor Jones presents a forceful powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness as it traces events in the life of the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island, who attempts to flee both his angry countrymen and personal demons.
The Hairy Ape combines elements of class struggle and surreal tragedy as it explores the dehumanization of a crew member on a transatlantic liner.
Anna Christie displays O'Neill's skills of character development as he focuses on the relationship of a sailor and his long-lost daughter, who reveals an unsavory secret about her past.
Essential reading for students of theater and literature, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the seminal work of a writer who became one of the most vital forces in the American theater.

Reprint of The Emperor Jones, Stewart Kidd Co., Cincinnati, 1921, and The Hairy Ape and Anna Christie, Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill; American playwright; Nobel laureate in Literature; realism; Anton Chekhov; Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; Swedish playwright August Strindberg; Long Day's Journey into Night; 20th century; Ah, Wilderness; tragedy; personal pessimism; Barrett House; Broadway and 43rd Street; Longacre Square; Times Square; Irish immigrant actor James O'Neill; Mary Ellen Quinlan; St. Aloysius Academy for Boys; Catholic boarding school; Riverdale, Bronx; Monte Cristo Cottage, New London, Connecticut; Princeton University; Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World; Bread and Butter; Servitude; The Personal Equation; Now I Ask You; Beyond the Horizon; Pulitzer Prize; The Straw; Chris Christophersen; Gold; Anna Christie; The Emperor Jones; Diff'rent; The First Man; The Hairy Ape; The Fountain; Marco Millions; All God's Chillun Got Wings; Welded; Desire Under the Elms; Lazarus Laughed; The Great God Brown; Strange Interlude; Dynamo; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness!; Days Without End; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night; A Moon for the Misbegotten; A Touch of the Poet; More Stately Mansions; The Calms of Capricorn

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and four Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. This volume includes three of the writer’s early, influential works:
The Emperor Jones presents a forceful powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness as it traces events in the life of the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island, who attempts to flee both his angry countrymen and personal demons.
The Hairy Ape combines elements of class struggle and surreal tragedy as it explores the dehumanization of a crew member on a transatlantic liner.
Anna Christie displays O'Neill's skills of character development as he focuses on the relationship of a sailor and his long-lost daughter, who reveals an unsavory secret about her past.
Essential reading for students of theater and literature, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the seminal work of a writer who became one of the most vital forces in the American theater.

Reprint of The Emperor Jones, Stewart Kidd Co., Cincinnati, 1921, and The Hairy Ape and Anna Christie, Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill; American playwright; Nobel laureate in Literature; realism; Anton Chekhov; Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; Swedish playwright August Strindberg; Long Day's Journey into Night; 20th century; Ah, Wilderness; tragedy; personal pessimism; Barrett House; Broadway and 43rd Street; Longacre Square; Times Square; Irish immigrant actor James O'Neill; Mary Ellen Quinlan; St. Aloysius Academy for Boys; Catholic boarding school; Riverdale, Bronx; Monte Cristo Cottage, New London, Connecticut; Princeton University; Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World; Bread and Butter; Servitude; The Personal Equation; Now I Ask You; Beyond the Horizon; Pulitzer Prize; The Straw; Chris Christophersen; Gold; Anna Christie; The Emperor Jones; Diff'rent; The First Man; The Hairy Ape; The Fountain; Marco Millions; All God's Chillun Got Wings; Welded; Desire Under the Elms; Lazarus Laughed; The Great God Brown; Strange Interlude; Dynamo; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness!; Days Without End; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night; A Moon for the Misbegotten; A Touch of the Poet; More Stately Mansions; The Calms of Capricorn