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ISBN-10: 0300117434
ISBN-13: 9780300117431
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 08/01/2006
Dimensions: 7.84" L, 5.02" W, 0.65" H

The Iceman Cometh

Foreword by: Harold Bloom

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Eugene O’Neill’s darkest and most nihilistic play, with a foreword by Harold Bloom

“We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion.”–Harold Bloom, from the Introduction

The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. Eugene O’Neill–the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature–completed Iceman 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 O’Neill’s darkest and most nihilistic play. Since then, The Iceman Cometh has gained enormously in stature; many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama.

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Selected by the Association of American University Presses as a University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2007

"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality . . . life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."–from the foreword by Harold Bloom

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Details

ISBN-10: 0300117434
ISBN-13: 9780300117431
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 08/01/2006
Dimensions: 7.84" L, 5.02" W, 0.65" H
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