Early Plays
by Eugene O'neill

Early Plays Book Cover
Early Plays Cover

Highlights

American

Synopsis

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.

Themes

Publication

Publisher
Penguin
Year Published
2001
ISBN 10
0141186704
ISBN 13
9780141186702
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
448 pages
Place Published
New York, N.Y
Language
English
LCCN
2001273419
LCC
PS3529.N5 A6 2001
DCC
812/.52
eISBN 13
9781101176993
Print
Early Plays is a American play written by and published by Penguin in New York, N.Y, 2001. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780141186702 and an ISBN-10 of 0141186704.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books Google Play with an ISBN-13 of 9781101176993.

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