A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions are regarded as two of Eugene O’Neill’s finest plays. Companion pieces, linked by characters and themes, they form part of a projected series of eleven interconnected plays in which the playwright intended to give a psychological and economic account of American life. Now these works, the only surviving plays in O’Neill’s “Cycle,” are brought together for the first time in a paperback volume. The version of More Stately Mansions presented here is O’Neill’s unexpurgated text, scrupulously edited by Martha Gilman Bower, which restores the playwright’s original opening scene, a crucial epilogue, and other material essential to our understanding of the play.
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From the Back Cover:
"A Touch of the Poet is in a class just short of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night." - Harold Bloom
About the Author:
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), the father of American drama, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. Martha Gilman Bower is professor of English and graduate literature and criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1957
- ISBN 10 0300001789
- ISBN 13 9780300001785
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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