Six Plays

When Eugene ONeill was conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, the award committee praised the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of the American playwrights dramatic works, which remain topical and preserve their resonance to this day. This extensive selection includes six of ONeills most famous and performed works for the stage, from the early one-act play Bound East for Cardiff and the 1920 tragedy The Emperor Jones, to the expressionist play The Hairy Ape, first produced in 1922, through to the dramatic masterpieces of his mature period in the 1930s and 1940s: Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and Long Days Journey into Night. Together, these plays cement ONeills place as one of the foremost realist playwrights, alongside Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov.