Eugene O'Neill, Three Plays: Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night : a CasebookNormand Berlin |
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... suicide , revenge . The Iceman Cometh takes four hours to orchestrate the alcohol - drenched pipe - dreams of the lodgers in a 1912 New York City saloon , " The End of the Line Cafe ' , into which a salesman called Hickey , the play's ...
... suicide , revenge . The Iceman Cometh takes four hours to orchestrate the alcohol - drenched pipe - dreams of the lodgers in a 1912 New York City saloon , " The End of the Line Cafe ' , into which a salesman called Hickey , the play's ...
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... suicide . The daughter's malefic importunities drive the son to suicide . It is a family that simmers with hatred , suspicion , jealousy and greed , and that is twisted by unnatural loves . Although Mr O'Neill uses the Orestes legend as ...
... suicide . The daughter's malefic importunities drive the son to suicide . It is a family that simmers with hatred , suspicion , jealousy and greed , and that is twisted by unnatural loves . Although Mr O'Neill uses the Orestes legend as ...
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... suicide . Larry Slade , in his latest play , The Iceman Cometh , is a typical credens Cathar : one who professes , but does not practise , the faith in its extreme form . He has no will to live , nor any will to die ; and he drifts down ...
... suicide . Larry Slade , in his latest play , The Iceman Cometh , is a typical credens Cathar : one who professes , but does not practise , the faith in its extreme form . He has no will to live , nor any will to die ; and he drifts down ...
Contents
General Editors Preface | 9 |
Comment by ONeill | 21 |
Commentators on the 1931 Production | 32 |
Copyright | |
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