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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100141186704
ISBN-139780141186702
eBay Product ID (ePID)1890426
Product Key Features
Book TitleEarly Plays
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, American / General
GenreDrama, Literary Collections, History
AuthorEugene O'Neill
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-273419
ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama ( Anna Christie and Beyond the Horizon ) By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal812/.52
Grade ToUP
Table Of ContentEarly PlaysIntroduction by Jeffrey H. Richards A Note on the Texts Selected Bibliography The Moon of the Caribbees Bound East for Cardiff The Long Voyage Home In the Zone Ile Where the Cross Is Made The Rope Beyond the Horizon The Straw The Emperor Jones Anna Christie The Hairy Ape
SynopsisA selection of early work--including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays--from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic Included in this volume are seven one-act plays ( The Moon of the Caribbees , Bound East for Cardiff , In the Zone , The Long Voyage Home , Ile , Where the Cross Is Made , and The Rope ), and five full-length plays ( Beyond the Horizon , The Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape ), all written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. The majority of these plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism--Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Also included in this unique collection is the little-known and highly autobiographical play The Straw , which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.