Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays Vol. 2 1920-1931 (LOA #41) - Hardcover

O'Neill, Eugene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940450496 ISBN 13: 9780940450493

Publisher: The Library of America, 1988

Synopsis

The only American dramatist awarded the Noble Prize for Literature, Eugene O'Neill wrote with poetic expressiveness, emotional intensity, and immense dramatic power. On the centenary of his birth The Library of America is publishing the first complete collection of O'Neill's plays. This volume, the second of three, contains 13 plays written between 1920 and 1931, years in which O'Neill achieved his greatest popularity while experimenting with a wide variety of subject and styles.

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About the Author:

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) is one of the most significant forces in the history of American theater. With no uniquely American tradition to guide him, O'Neill introduced various dramatic techniques, which subsequently became staples of the U.S. theater. By 1914 he had written twelve one-act and two long plays. Of this early work, only Thirst and Other One-act plays (1914) was originally published. From this point on, O'Neill's work falls roughly into three phases: the early plays, written from 1914 to 1921 (The Long Voyage Home, The Moon of the Caribbees, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie); a variety of full-length plays for Broadway (Desire Under the Elms; Great God Brown; Ah, Wilderness!); and the last, great plays, written between 1938 and his death (The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten). Eugene O'Neill is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Library of America
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0940450496
• ISBN 13: 9780940450493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1072