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The tragedy of a young, farm-born dreamer, whose romantic mind and frail body yearn for the open sea, the swarming ports of the mysterious East, for a wanderer's life

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and four Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. This volume includes three of the writer’s early, influential works:
The Emperor Jones presents a forceful powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness as it traces events in the life of the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian island, who attempts to flee both his angry countrymen and personal demons.
The Hairy Ape combines elements of class struggle and surreal tragedy as it explores the dehumanization of a crew member on a transatlantic liner.
Anna Christie displays O'Neill's skills of character development as he focuses on the relationship of a sailor and his long-lost daughter, who reveals an unsavory secret about her past.
Essential reading for students of theater and literature, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the seminal work of a writer who became one of the most vital forces in the American theater.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and four Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. This volume includes three of the…

Юджин О’Нил родился в отеле на Бродвее. Его отец был актером с амплуа романтического героя. В роли Эдмона Дантеса в «Графе Монте-Кристо» Джеймс О’Нил выходил на сцену более четырех тысяч раз. Старший брат Юджина, Джейми, тоже играл в театре. Младший, Эдмунд, умер еще в младенчестве.
Реальные семейные драмы сыграли исключительно важную роль в его творчестве, и одна из лучших пьес «Долгий день уходит в ночь» почти буквально воспроизводит тягостную обстановку, в которой проходило его детство, даже имена изменены незначительно.
Отец, озабоченный тем, что растрачивает свой талант по пустякам. Мать, пристрастившаяся к наркотикам. Брат – алкоголик, шатающийся по барам и борделям. Себя автор вывел под именем покойного брата Эдмунда.

Юджин О’Нил родился в отеле на Бродвее. Его отец был актером с амплуа романтического героя. В роли Эдмона Дантеса в «Графе Монте-Кристо» Джеймс О’Нил выходил на сцену более…

Драматургия О'Нила - не просто собрание пьес более или менее интересных, более или менее жизненно правдивых. Она - явление такого же порядка, как драматургия Ибсена, Стриндберга, Чехова, Гауптмана, это попытка дать в сценической форме образы, через которые раскроются глубинные вопросы жизни и обнаружится вся многосложность человеческой души.

Драматургия О'Нила - не просто собрание пьес более или менее интересных, более или менее жизненно правдивых. Она - явление такого же порядка, как драматургия Ибсена, Стриндберга,…

Трилогия является одной из лучших пьес американского драматурга, который использовал античную легенду об Атреях, рассказывая об американской семье.

Действие разворачивается на ферме Фила Хогена. Трое его сыновей сбежали из дома, не выдержав деспотии и агрессивного поведения отца. Уживается с ним лишь тридцатилетняя дочь Джози – крупная и способная к работе, пользующаяся, однако, весьма сомнительной репутацией гулящей женщины. Последний из ее братьев, уходя из отцовского дома, советует ей окрутить кого-нибудь и остепениться. Лучше всего, по его разумению, подходит пьяница Джим Тайрон, у которого Хогены арендуют ферму. Ей претит даже мысль о подобном союзе, однако отец согласен с сыновьями.

Действие разворачивается на ферме Фила Хогена. Трое его сыновей сбежали из дома, не выдержав деспотии и агрессивного поведения отца. Уживается с ним лишь тридцатилетняя дочь Джози…

Анна приезжает в портовый город к своему отцу, моряку. Они вместе выходят на барже в море, которое Крис ненавидит и считает губительным, а жившая на суше Анна – привлекательным. Вскоре у девушки появляется жених – тоже моряк. Однако старый Крис не собирается отдавать дочь за непутёвого матроса, желая найти Анне хорошего мужа с ненавистной ей стабильной и скучной суши. Да и в прошлой жизни Анны есть немало секретов, мешающих принять предложение полюбившегося человека.

Анна приезжает в портовый город к своему отцу, моряку. Они вместе выходят на барже в море, которое Крис ненавидит и считает губительным, а жившая на суше Анна – привлекательным.…

В книгу вошло одно из программных произведений известного американского драматурга, лауреата Нобелевской премии Ю.О'Нила. Отчетливые реминисценции с пьесой М.Горького "На дне" не буквальны, автор в свойственной только ему манере развивает идеи и размышления русского классика. Апокалиптические мотивы у него связаны с историческим моментом (пьеса написана в 1939 г.) и поддержаны условно-метафорическим характером повествования. Предчувствие гибели современного Вавилона сосредоточено в многозначном образе Продавца льда, который ассоциируется и с закатом цивилизации, и с финалом жизни каждого из персонажей пьесы.

В книгу вошло одно из программных произведений известного американского драматурга, лауреата Нобелевской премии Ю.О'Нила. Отчетливые реминисценции с пьесой М.Горького "На дне" не…

Often called the most autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, After the Fall probes deeply into the psyche of Quentin, a man who ruthlessly revisits his past to explain the catastrophe that is his life. His journey backward takes him through a troubled upbringing, the bitter death of his mother, and a series of failed relationships.

Often called the most autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, After the Fall probes deeply into the psyche of Quentin, a man who ruthlessly revisits his past to explain the…

Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women’s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (“the world’s oldest living and practicing poet”), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night.

This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the author’s original Foreword, the short story “The Night of the Iguana” which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch.

Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The…

In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an industrialist confronted with his moral lapses during World War II; Death of a Salesman, the wrenching tragedy of Willy Loman's demise; The Crucible, at once a riveting reconstruction of the Salem witch trials and a parable of McCarthyism; and A View from the Bridge, Miller's tale of betrayal among Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, presented here in both the original one-act and revised two-act versions.
This volume also contains the intriguing early drama The Man Who Had All the Luck, the first of Miller's plays to be produced on Broadway, along with his adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, the autobiographical one-act A Memory of Two Mondays, and Miller's novella The Misfits, based on the screenplay he wrote for Marilyn Monroe.

In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established…

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter, who he hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, the talk stops being just about whether Victor's been offered a fair price for the furniture, and turns to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father lost both his fortune and the will to go on ...

Fraught, but cut through with humour, The Price is one of Arthur Miller's finest plays.

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair -…

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values.

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited…

An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war.

An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience…

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' –…

This first volume of Arden's dramatic work contains plays from the late fifties including The Waters of Babylon about political chancer Charles Butterthwaite at large in London; the one act industrial episode When is a Door not a Door; The Happy Haven, a comedy inspired by the painter Cranach about old age and rejuvenation; Live Like Pigs; "an amazing and lyrical play, beautifully poised between farce and tragedy" Michael Coveney and Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; "a spell-binding, mind-challenging drama that touches greatness" Michael Billington.

"Arden is a giant of modern playwriting. He wrote on an epic scale that few have attained since, the plays tumble into action, and with vivid human response." (Dominic Dromgoole)

This first volume of Arden's dramatic work contains plays from the late fifties including The Waters of Babylon about political chancer Charles Butterthwaite at large in London;…

El teatro de Casona se desenvuelve dentro de un realismo impresionista. Este volumen reuacute;ne tres de sus obras maacute;s relevantes, que han sido objeto de numerosas representaciones en los paiacute;ses de habla hispana, y muy traducida. Conviertase en un lector de cuentos y fantasías.

El teatro de Casona se desenvuelve dentro de un realismo impresionista. Este volumen reuacute;ne tres de sus obras maacute;s relevantes, que han sido objeto de numerosas…

Produced with great success on Broadway, this striking drama has established itself among the important plays of our time. It is based on the poetic conception of death suspending all activities for three days during which he falls in love with a beautiful girl and through her realizes why mortals fear him. The mood of the play is established with remarkable skill and while it is charged with exciting moments, it is a perfect background for a love story that is as simple as it is appealing. The character who symbolizes Death is a very human person, with no conventional claptrap dragged in for mere effect. Here is a play that stimulates discussion and presents a novel and optimistic philosophy of the problems of love and death. This is one of the most popular and successful plays for amateurs.

Produced with great success on Broadway, this striking drama has established itself among the important plays of our time. It is based on the poetic conception of death suspending…

Tennessee Williams’s sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desire fading southern belle Blanche Dubois finds her romantic illusions brutally shattered; The Glass Menagerie portrays an introverted girl trapped in a fantasy world; and Sweet Bird of Youth shows how we are unable to escape ‘the enemy, time’.

Tennessee Williams’s sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the…

Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form.
Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England.
Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today’s theater scene, and Goldman’s screenplay for the 1968 film adaptation won him an Academy Award. Told in “marvelously articulate language, with humor that bristles and burns” (Los Angeles Times), The Lion in Winter is the rare play that bursts into life on the printed page.

Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to…

George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.

In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair Lady, Shaw compels the audience to see the utter absurdity and hypocrisy of class distinction when Professor Henry Higgins wagers that he can transform a common flower girl into a lady—and then pass her off as a duchess—simply by changing her speech and manners.

In Major Barbara Shaw spins out the drama of an eccentric millionaire, a romantic poet, and a misguided savior of souls, Major Barbara herself, in a topsy-turvy masterpiece of sophisticated banter and urbane humor. His brilliant dialogue, combined with his use of paradox and socialist theory, never fails to tickle, entertain—and challenge.

George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make…

Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated sermons on moral and economic issues, a potentially dry theatrical experience enlivened by Shaw's genius for creating vital characters and scintillating dialogue. Major Barbara offers a sparkling example of its author's unique gift for presenting social theories in an engaging format.
The eponymous heroine, an officer in the Salvation Army, is the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy armaments manufacturer. When the Army accepts donations from Undershaft and a whiskey distiller, whose money Barbara regards as tainted, she resigns in disgust, but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.

Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated…

Пьеса «Изгнанники» (1918) — единственное драматическое произведения Дж. Джойса, дошедшее до наших дней. Пьеса о сохранении любви и дружбы, в условиях столь желанной полной свободы, без всякого внешнего принуждения, «по ту сторону» всех оков, социальных, моральных духовных, которые накладывает общество. Цена такого освобождения высока — одиночество и изгнание. Одинокие изгнанники, вынужденные осуществлять свободный выбор, терзаются сомнениями и находят успокоение в природной стихии «вечно женственного».

Пьеса «Изгнанники» (1918) — единственное драматическое произведения Дж. Джойса, дошедшее до наших дней. Пьеса о сохранении любви и дружбы, в условиях столь желанной полной…

Three plays by one of the titans of twentieth century drama, demonstrating the immense power of his understanding of human nature and its frailties.

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded,…