num_pages: 448
description: Now collected for the first time in a single volume, this selection of Eugene O'Neill's seminal early work was written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. The majority of the plays gathered here are heavily influenced by Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, German expressionism, and the radical leftist politics O'Neill was involved in during his youth. Included in this unique collection is the little-known and underappreciated play The Straw, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium. This edition includes an illuminating critical introduction by Jeffrey H. Richards.
language: English
title: Early Plays
titlecomplete: Early Plays
genres: Drama, Plays, Classics
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Penguin Classics