Exorcism: A Play in One Act (First Edition)
Eugene O'Neill (author); Edward Albee (foreword)
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. A clean, tight, unread copy. Issued without dust jacket. Brand new, perfect condition. "Exorcism" is a short, one-act play written by Eugene O Neill in 1919, drawn directly from his own suicide attempt earlier that year and the immediate aftermath of his first marriage's collapse. The work is unusually raw even by O Neill s standards, portraying a young writer's psychological disintegration and near-death experience without symbolic distance or theatrical cushioning. O Neill later suppressed the play, reportedly at the urging of his wife Carlotta, believing it was too personal and too revealing to be released during his lifetime, and he instructed that it not be published or performed. The manuscript remained effectively sealed for decades and was only released posthumously in 2002, when it appeared for the first time in print, accompanied by a foreword by Edward Albee, who emphasizes its importance as a key document in understanding O Neill s emotional life and the origins of his mature dramatic voice. Eugene O Neill is the author of Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day s Journey into Night, and the recipient of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize in Literature.…
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- Title
- Exorcism: A Play in One Act (First Edition)
- Author
- Eugene O'Neill (author); Edward Albee (foreword)
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300181310
- ISBN 13
- 9780300181319
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Nobel Prize in Literature
A thrilling archival discovery and literary event―the publication, after ninety years, of a sharply autobiographical one-act play by the father of modern American theater
Shortly after the debut of Exorcism in 1920, Eugene O’Neill suddenly canceled production and ordered all extant copies of the drama destroyed. For over ninety years, it was believed that the play was irrevocably lost, until it was recently discovered that O’Neill’s second wife had in fact retained a copy, which she later gave to the prolific screenwriter and producer Philip Yordan. In early 2011, Yordan’s widow discovered the typescript of Exorcism―complete with edits in O’Neill’s own hand―in her late husband’s vast trove of papers. The discovery and publication of Exorcism, a relatively early play in the O’Neill corpus, furthers our knowledge of O’Neill’s dramatic development and reveals a pivotal point in the career of this great American playwright.
Revolving around a suicide attempt, Exorcism draws on a dark incident in O’Neill’s own life. This defining event led to his first serious efforts to write. Exorcism displays early examples of O’Neill’s unparalleled skills of capturing deeply personal human drama, and it explores major themes―mourning and melancholia, addiction and sobriety, tensions between fathers and sons―that would permeate his later work. According to Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library curator Louise Bernard, who acquired the play from a New York bookseller, “Exorcism might be read as a preparatory sketch that resonates powerfully with Long Day’s Journey into Night, one that brings the O’Neill family drama full circle in ways at once intimate and grandly conceived.”
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Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953), considered by many to be America’s greatest playwright, was a four-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
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