Book #57843

Eugene O'Neill At Work: Newly Released Ideas for Plays - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Virginia Floyd

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981.
ISBN: 0804422052

Price: $50.00

An unblemished first Printing of the First Edition in a Fine dust-jacket.

Eugene O'Neill: At Work is a new anthology of Eugene O'Neill's unpublished ideas for plays, edited by Floyd Virginia. This book is a valuable addition to O'Neill scholarship and will be of interest to theatre scholars, O'Neill fans, and students of American drama.

The book includes a comprehensive introduction by Floyd Virginia, as well as notes and commentary on each of the plays by various scholars. The plays range from early ideas for plays such as "The Great God Brown" and "The Iceman Cometh" to later drafts of "The Hairy Ape" and "Strange Interlude." The book is divided thematically into three parts: "The Sacred World of theagogue," "The Social World," and "The Creative World."; 8vo; 407 pages.