Aug 21, 2008
Eugene O’Neill is the closest thing the United States has to a classical dramatist. His plays, produced over a period of nearly forty years, are regularly revived on Broadway and off. Actors have enhanced their reputations by performing the demanding roles he created for them, and such plays as The Iceman Cometh (1946) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1956), which had its posthumous premiere in Stockholm, are as revered abroad as they are in the playwright's homeland.
Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill, edited by Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer, is...
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