Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neill: The Emperor Jones; Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; Desire Under the Elms; The Great God Brown; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh (International Collectors Library)

737 pp. Original brown leatherette Masque and Bauble replica binding. Gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, ribbon marker bound in, brown endpapers. Includes: The Emperor Jones; Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; Desire Under the Elms; The Great God Brown; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh. "Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism pioneered by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and August Strindberg into American drama, and was the first to use truly American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one comedy (Ah, Wilderness!); all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy or personal pessimism. He was also part of the modern movement to revive the classical heroic mask from ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh theatre in some of his plays. O'Neill was very interested in the Faust theme, especially in the 1920s."