A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions are regarded as two of Eugene O’Neill’s finest plays. Companion pieces, linked by characters and themes, they form part of a projected series of eleven interconnected plays in which the playwright intended to give a psychological and economic account of American life. Now these works, the only surviving plays in O’Neill’s “Cycle,” are brought together for the first time in a paperback volume. The version of More Stately Mansions presented here is O’Neill’s unexpurgated text, scrupulously edited by Martha Gilman Bower, which restores the playwright’s original opening scene, a crucial epilogue, and other material essential to our understanding of the play.

Touch of the Poet

Literature & Fiction

O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone

Dramas & Plays

Yale University Press

A Wife for a Life, The Movie Man, The Sniper, Abortion, Thirst, The Web, Warnings, Fog, Recklessness and Servitude.

Ten "Lost" Plays

Dover Pubns

Anna Christie, the Emperor Jones, the Hairy Ape

Amereon Limited

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobelprize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behaviour, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one comedy Ah, Wilderness!, all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), The First Man (1922), and The Hairy Ape (1922). In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Anna Christie (Dodo Press)

Contemporary

Dodo Press

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobel prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behaviour, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one comedy Ah, Wilderness!, all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), The First Man (1922), and The Hairy Ape (1922). In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Hairy Ape (Dodo Press)

Ah Wilderness And Days Without End

Ah, Wilderness ! and Days Without End Two Plays by Eugene O'Neill Scenes ACT ONE Sitting-room of the Miller home in a large small-town in Connecticut early morning, July 4th, 1906. ACT TWO Dining-room of the Miller home evening of the same day. ACT THREE Scene One : Back room of a bar in a small hotel 10 o'clock the same night. Scene Two : Same as Act One the sitting-room of the Miller home a little after 11 o'clock the same night. ACT FOUR Scene One : The Miller sitting-room again about 1 o'clock the following afternoon. Scene Two : A strip of beach along the harbour about 9 o'clock that night, Scene Three : Same as Scene One the sitting-room about 10 o'clock the same night CHARACTERS NAT MILLER, owner of the " Evening Globe " ESSIE, his wife MILDRED TOMMY SID DAVIS, Essie's brother LILY MILLER, Nat's sister DAVID McCoMBER MURIEL McCoMBER, daughter WINT SELBY, classmate of Arthurs at Yale BELLE NORAH BARTENDER SALESMAN ACT ONE SCENE. Sitting-room of the Miller home in a large small town in Connecticut about 7.30 in the morning of July 4th, 1906. The room is fairly large, homely looking and cheerful in the morning sunlight, furnished with scrupulous medium-priced tastelessness of the period. Beneath the two windows at left, front, a sofa with silk and satin cushions stands against the walL At rear of sofa, a bookcase with glass doors, fitted with cheap sets, extends along the remaining length of wall In the rear wall, left, is a double doorway with sliding doors andportieres, leading into a dark, windowless, lack parlour. At right of this doorway, another bookcase, this time a small, open one, crammed with boys and girls books and the best-setting novels of many past years books the family really have read. To the right of this book- case is the mate of the double doorway at its left, with sliding doors and portieres, this one leading to a well- lighted front parlour. In the right wall, rear, a screen door opens on a porch. Farther forward in this watt are two windows, with a writing-desk and a chair between them. At centre is a big, round table with a green-shaded reading-lamp, the cord of the lamp running up to one of five sockets in the chandelier above. Five chairs are grouped about the table three rockers at lefty right, and right rear of it, two armchairs at rear and left rear, A medium-priced, inoffensive rug covers........

Ah Wilderness and Days Without End

History

Hesperides Press

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The Hairy Ape

Literary

HardPress Publishing

Eugene O'Neill was a prominent American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and he also was one of the first American writers of realism. Some of O'Neill's most famous plays include Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, and Morning Becomes Electra. Anna Christie is a play that earned O'Neill the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922. The action centers around a former prostitute who tries to turn her life around.

Anna Christie

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Plays of Eugene O'Neill Including Anna Christie, Beyond the Horizon, Emperor Jones, the Hairy Ape and Days Without End

Kessinger Publishing