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3/5 stars.I was required to read Anna Christie for my American Studies class and found that it was an interesting take on gender, class, and prohibition in the early 20s. The other two plays were included in the copy that I had so I read them as well. The Hairy Ape is very clearly centered around social class and The Emperor Jones around the effects of imperialism.Anna Christie 4/5The Emperor Jones 2/5The Hairy Ape 4/5
Part of why I like my local library is that I can find a 1938 edition of three Eugene O’Neill plays and read an introduction that is a contemporary rather than historical essay of the plays. Lionel Trilling’s introduction is the perfect preface to this collection, and if you can find this edition, I’d recommend it. As for the individual plays:The Emperor Jones: Those who prefer their plays strongly rooted in reality should avoid this one. I’m mixed about expressionism, but I liked this tale of a...
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The title of this slim volume is hyperbole; O'Neill's great plays were still ahead of him when he wrote these two 1-act plays and the more expansive "Anne Christie". These plays are important not because they are great but because they show us O'Neill working his craft. In these early-works he is just beginning to mine his own experiences and influences; ships and the sea, the bars, the women of ill-repute, broken families. In an interview the late, great actor and O'Neill-specialist, Brian Denn...
Exciting plays. Especially love "The Emperor Jones".
While I love Long Day's Journey... and O'Neill in general, I found The Emperor Jones really hard to read - mostly because the attempt at capturing the vernacular really failed (for me). Anna Christie is best for this aspect.
Powerful plays that addresses social problems and human dark hidden emotions.
Though I read all of these plays for academic games in high school, I really only remember "The Hairy Ape" and "The Emporer Jones". O'Neill's plays on the whole are some of the best to read because they have a mix of mostly gritty realism with some fantastical or expressionistic elements; on the whole you can really "see" everything happening, and what the characters look like, and then you'll run into something fun that will really make your imagination work, and you just long to see how it mig...
Haven't read any O'Neill in more than 20 years and have thus far only read The Hairy Ape from this collection. Still settling in to it, but it's good enough to make me reread Emperor Jones. Gotta be a helluva challenge to stage this thing. O'Neill's dialect jangles like a brutal caricature (See:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfH9pC... for reference) in my head, but Yank--the oppressed hairy ape/boiler man of the title who fits exactly nowhere--feels just as real and moving and in this thing as h...
I had to read 'The Hairy Ape' for class, and I finished the other two on my own. 'Anna Christie' was my favorite of the three. The dialogues were hard to read, but I got through them. 'The Emperor Jones' reminded me of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' for some reason.
I went into reading this collection, which includes a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, thinking I was going to enjoy well crafted drama. Maybe it was back in its day. But I found it underwhelming, hard to follow, and bogged down with racism and sexism.Emperor Jones - I don’t know what it is with white people writing shows where people of color do nothing but suffer. The main character was written to be evil, and then was contrasted with a equally evil white man who never suffers, and then all we do
Emperor Jones is predictable, Anna Christie was okay nothing special, The Hairy Ape was good.
If Nietzsche had an Irish temperament he would be Eugene O'Neill. One of the greatest playwrights to ever live. He create his plays from an autobiographic perspective, lanced with wit, candor, and raw emotions.If i had to pick one from the three, Hairy Ape is one of his best plays "It takes a MAN to work in hell"! But read ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING O'Neill wrote he doesnt disappoint in showing the subtle tensions that make the human condition a tragic-comic one!
I just don't like reading plays. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?I didn't really not like it though. It just didn't add or subtract anything to/from my life at all, except maybe the hour or two spent reading it.
Eugene O'Neill is widely considered to be among the best playwrights ever in the United States concerning drama, having one four Pulitzer prizes for his playwriting. To put it mildly, these are not his best works. I had never heard of any of these, and I am someone who reads plays relatively often, and looking at these plays in greater detail (thankfully they are all pretty short), they are not plays that I would expect to see revived now or any time soon. In fact, the word that springs to mi...
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O'Neill does a fantastic job of illustrating the struggle of a character as they desperately cling to the remaining thread of their facade before it is forced from them, leaving them stripped of everything but their true forms; the inner ugliness and secrets kept hidden, crammed down into darker places, because their social acceptance depended on it. There is something appealing in that. The characters of these three plays (as well as the plays themselves) lack the depth and humorous disparity p...
یوجین اونیل (1953-1888) نمایش نامه نویس آمریکایی برنده ی نوبل، متاثر از تیاتر واقع گرای چخوف و هنریک ایبسن بود. او که سال ها روی کشتی کار کرده بود، در اغلب آثار اولیه اش به زندگی ملاحان و سفرهای دریایی پرداخت. آخرین نمایش نامه های اونیل، بهترین آنها هستند که به نوعی تراژدی شخصیت های نومید مشهور اند.
