Magnum Opus: The Cycle Plays of Eugene O’Neill

An original and provocative analysis of Eugene O'Neill's unfinished cycle play project

From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O’Neill worked on a series of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations. He completed just two of the proposed eleven plays—A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions—which Zander Brietzke argues represent the core of the entire cycle. Combining archival research, literary analysis, and theatrical imagination,
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