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Early Plays

Author Eugene O'Neill
Introduction by Jeffrey H. Richards
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
On sale Aug 01, 2001 | 448 Pages | 9781101176993
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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A 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.
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) is one of the most significant forces in the history of American theater. With no uniquely American tradition to guide him, O’Neill introduced various dramatic techniques, which subsequently became staples of the US theater. By 1914 he had written 12 one-act and two long plays. Of this early work, only Thirst and Other One Act Plays (1914) was originally published. From this point on, O’Neill’s work falls roughly into three phases: the early plays, written from 1914 to 1921 (The Long Voyage Home, The Moon of the Caribbees, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie); a variety of full-length plays for Broadway (Desire Under the Elms, Great God Brown, Ah, Wilderness!); and the last, great plays, written between 1938 and his death (The Iceman Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten). O'Neill is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936. View titles by Eugene O'Neill
Early 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

  • WINNER
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Anna Christie and Beyond the Horizon)
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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A 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.

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Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) is one of the most significant forces in the history of American theater. With no uniquely American tradition to guide him, O’Neill introduced various dramatic techniques, which subsequently became staples of the US theater. By 1914 he had written 12 one-act and two long plays. Of this early work, only Thirst and Other One Act Plays (1914) was originally published. From this point on, O’Neill’s work falls roughly into three phases: the early plays, written from 1914 to 1921 (The Long Voyage Home, The Moon of the Caribbees, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie); a variety of full-length plays for Broadway (Desire Under the Elms, Great God Brown, Ah, Wilderness!); and the last, great plays, written between 1938 and his death (The Iceman Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten). O'Neill is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936. View titles by Eugene O'Neill

Table of Contents

Early 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

Awards

  • WINNER
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Praise

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Anna Christie and Beyond the Horizon)
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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