A Moon for the Misbegotten (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugene O’Neill
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1940’s
- Setting: Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Josie Hogan, Phil Hogan, Mike Hogan, James Tyrone, Jr.
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Memory, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Guilt, Yards or backyards, 1920’s, New England, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Connecticut
- Locales: Connecticut
The Play
A Moon for the Misbegotten begins on a hot, clear day at roughly noon at the Hogans’ run-down farm, the house weathered gray and congruous with the parched and barren land that surrounds it. Attached to the house’s left side is a small bedroom, its walls and roof covered with tar paper; three steps lead up to the door of this room, and it is from this door that a very large woman emerges, her feet bare and her body clothed in a sleeveless cotton dress. She is Josie Hogan, and she is obviously anxious about something as she looks around the right corner of...
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