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ePub ISBN: 978-1-940207-87-2
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data
Names: Mitchell, Rick (Richard W.), editor. O’Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953, author.
Title: Experimental O’Neill , The Wooster Group, The Hairy Ape, the S. S. Glencairn : one-act plays, and other journeys into the world of Eugene O’Neill / edited by Rick Mitchell.
Description: Includes bibliography | First Trade Paperback Original Edition | A Barnacle Book | Los Angeles [California], New York [New York]: Rare Bird Books, 2016.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-0-9887456-9-8
Subjects: LCSH O’Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 | American drama—20th century. | BISAC DRAMA / American / General.
Classification: LCC PS3529.N5 A6 2016 | DDC 812/.52—dc23
Contents
Experimentation, The Wooster Group, and Early O’Neill
Caribbean Interrogations of The Emperor Jones
“Croak Wit Your Boots On!”: The Arrested Dialectic of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape
The Hairy Ape: A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life
A Play in Eight Scenes by Eugene O’Neill
Kate Valk on Performing O’Neill with the Wooster Group: An Interview
Les Hunter
The Moon of the Caribbees
A Play by Eugene O’Neill
Bound East for Cardiff
A Play by Eugene O’Neill
The Long Voyage Home
A Play by Eugene O’Neill
In The Zone
A Play by Eugene O’Neill
Noelia Hernando-Real
The Game: A Morality Play In One Act
A Play in One Act by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Preface
A century after Eugene O’Neill’s first produced play, Bound East for Cardiff, was put up by the Provincetown Players in 1916 in a converted fish house at the end of a wooden wharf in Provincetown Harbor, it is time to reassess