Collected Shorter Plays

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ISBN-10: 030010779X
ISBN-13: 9780300107791
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 02/01/2007
Dimensions: 7.78" L, 5.04" W, 0.84" H

Collected Shorter Plays

byEugene O'Neill
Introduction by: Robert Brustein

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Price: $15.95

Overview

All of O’Neill’s themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays. They are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here gathered in a single volume are nine one-act plays that span the playwright’s career–from the early sea plays to the Expressionist masterpiece The Hairy Ape to the eerie nocturnal monologue Hughie.
Included in this volume: Bound East for Cardiff – Fog – Thirst – The Long Voyage Home – Ile – The Moon of the Caribbees – In the Zone – The Hairy Ape – Hughie

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"O'Neill was not the first American to turn to one-act plays . . . but there is no doubt that . . . he perfected the form, just as Hemingway, a few years later, was to perfect the genre of the American short story."–from the introduction by Robert Brustein–Robert Brustein
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Details

ISBN-10: 030010779X
ISBN-13: 9780300107791
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 02/01/2007
Dimensions: 7.78" L, 5.04" W, 0.84" H
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