"Eugene OâNeill 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 OâNeillâs darkest and most nihilistic play. In the half cent ..."
"Eugene O Neill s autobiographical play "Long Day s Journey into Night" is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and critical perspectives; glosses of literary allusions and quotations; notes on the performance h ..."
Hughie. by EugeneO'neill Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1998 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0543-2, ISBN: 0-8222-0543-2
""Hughie" is a short two-character play by Eugene O’Neill set in the lobby of a small hotel on a West Side street in midtown New York during the summer of 1928. The play is essentially a long monologue delivered by a small time hustler named Erie Smith to the hotel’s new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith’s luck has gone bad since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor. Einstein Books' edition of "Hughie" contains supple ..."
"A critical edition of O'Neill's most complex and difficult play, designed for student readers and performers This critical edition of Eugene O'Neill's most complex and difficult play helps students and performers meet the work's demanding ..."
Beyond the Horizon (Hardback Or Cased Book) by EugeneO'neill Hardcover, Published 2018 by Franklin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-342-97379-8, ISBN: 0-342-97379-7
Ah, Wilderness! A Comedy of Recollection in Three Acts by EugeneO'neill Paperback, 151 Pages, Published 2017 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-60514-7, ISBN: 0-573-60514-9
"BELLE. (Sits chair above table # ?. Richard is in chair R. of table #3.) Come on,
let's have another drink — and this time I'll blow you just to show my appreciation.
(She calls) Hey, George! Bring us another round — the same! Bartender. ( Off
stage) Sure thing. Richard. (A remnant of caution coming to him. Scared) I don't
know as I ought to — Belle. Oh, another won't hurt you. And I want to blow you,
see. Richard. (Boldly draws hi ..."
"Desire Under the ElmsA Play in Three Parts By Eugene O'NeillThe play opens at the exterior of a farmhouse in New England. It is sunset on an early summer day in 1850. Eben Cabot enters and walks to the edge of the porch. He rings a bell to call in his half brothers, Simeon and Peter, who emerge soon after Eben goes back inside. The two brothers begin to talk about gold in the west and the risk of leaving everything they have worked for ..."
Ten "Lost" Plays by EugeneO'neill Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1995 by Dover Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-486-28367-8, ISBN: 0-486-28367-4
"... stands behind him looking over his shoulder. Finally, after one quick flip of the
pan, IACK points to the sediment left in the bottom in which a small heap of bright
yellow particles can be seen) What do you think of that? 6 TEN “Losr” PLAYS."
"Forces that they cannot understand or conquer drive O'Neill's characters. In the milieu of theater, the playwright brings these themes to their extremes. On symbolic and literal levels, these three plays expose the instincts and learned behaviors of humans and how they affect us in our search for a "spiritual place.""
""I suspect I shall keep on writing in a vain search for the perfect play. I hope I will keep my equilibrium and sense of humor when I'm told I haven't achieved it. At any rate, the trip has been wonderful. As George and Ira Gershwin said, "they can't take that away from me." —From Neil Simon's Introduction And they can't take away the pleasure that Neil Simon's plays have given literally millions of theatergoers in the past quarter ..."
"The third and final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic writings (available exclusively from The Library of America) contains eight plays written between 1932 and 1943, when illness forced him to stop writing. They represent the crowning achievements of his career.O’Neill described Ah, Wilderness! as “the way I would have liked my boyhood to have been.” Set in the summer of 1906, it affectionately depict ..."
"A beautiful and compassionate rendering of Eugene O'Neill's original poem, The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog is the perfect comfort for anyone grieving the loss of their furry friend. Those who have suffered the loss of a long-lived canine companion may take some solace in the classic prose poem by Eugene ONeill, The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog. Here, the poem, written from the p ..."
"The only American dramatist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Eugene O’Neill wrote with poetic expressiveness, emotional intensity, and immense dramatic power. This Library of America volume (the first in a three-volume set) contains twenty-nine plays he wrote between 1913, when he began his career, and 1920, the year he first achieved Broadway success.Many of O’Neill’s early plays are one-act melodramas whose characters are caugh ..."
"Brutus Jones, a former Pullman car porter wanted in the United States on two murder charges, has established himself as the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island. Warned that his subjects are about to rebel, he flees to the jungle — sick with fright — where he is plagued by ghosts of the men he has murdered and haunted by visions of injustices done to his race. Powerful scenes, punctuated by beating tom-toms, suggest Jones's pan ..."
""Spellbinding--soaring theater--. For reasons that remain mysterious, it seems especially moving today."--The New York TimesEugene 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 p ..."
"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, 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."
"Here on Compact Disc - a full-cast recording starring Robert Ryan, Stacy Keach, and Geraldine Fitzgerald - Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.O'Neill's painful view of his own life forms the core of Long Day's Journey Into Night, one of the greatest of all American plays. The Tyrone family (father James, mother Mary, and sons Edmund and Jamie) of the play is a surrogate for O'Neill's own family and, through them, the playwri ..."
"Playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) spent his early years as a merchant seaman and drifter on the waterfronts of New York, Liverpool, and Buenos Aires. From these experiences came the inspiration and subject matter for four of his finest short plays, collected in this volume.Written between 1913 and 1917 and considered to have made O'Neill's reputation, the plays comprise a tetralogy, all concerning the same ship, the S.S. Glencairn. ..."