Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1913-1920 (Library of America)

Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1913-1920 (Library of America)

The only American dramatist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Eugene Oâ€™Neill wrote with poetic expressiveness, emotional intensity, and immense dramatic power. This Library of America volume (the first in a three-volume set) contains twenty-nine plays he wrote between 1913, when he began his career, and 1920, the year he first achieved Broadway success.

Many of Oâ€™Neillâ€™s early plays are one-act melodramas whose characters are caught in extreme situations.Â ThirstÂ andÂ FogÂ depict shipwreck survivors,Â The WebÂ a young mother trapped in the New York underworld, andÂ AbortionÂ the aftermath of a college studentâ€™s affair with a stenographer.
His first distinctive works are four one-act plays about the crew of the tramp steamerÂ GlencairnÂ that render sailorsâ€™ speech with masterful faithfulness.Â Bound East for Cardiff,Â In the Zone,Â The Long Voyage Home, andÂ The Moon of the CaribbeesÂ portray these â€œchildren of the seaâ€ as they watch over a dying man, sail though submarine-patrolled waters, take their shore leave in a London dive, and drink rum in a moonlit tropical anchorage.

InÂ Beyond the HorizonÂ Robert Mayo begins a tragic chain of events by abandoning his dream of a life at sea, choosing instead to marry the woman his brother loves and remain on his family farm. The sea in â€œAnna Christieâ€ is both â€œdat ole devilâ€ to coal barge captain Chris Christopherson and a source of spiritual cleansing to his daughter Anna, an embittered prostitute. When a swaggering stoker falls in love with her, Anna becomes the apex of a three-sided struggle full of enraged pride, grim foreboding, and stubborn hope. Both of these plays won the Pulitzer Prize and helped establish Oâ€™Neill as a successful Broadway playwright.

The Emperor JonesÂ depicts the nightmarish journey through a West Indian forest of Brutus Jones, a former Pullman porter turned island ruler. Fleeing his rebellious subjects, Jones confronts his violent deeds and the tortured history of his race in a series of hallucinatory episodes whose expressionist quality anticipates many of Oâ€™Neillâ€™s later plays.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1988-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780940450486

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1988-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780940450486