A Moon for the Misbegotten - Softcover

O'Neill, Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300118155 ISBN 13: 9780300118155

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

A new, affordable paperback edition of one O’Neill’s late masterpieces

Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Moon picks up eleven years after the events described in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, asJim Tyrone (based on O’Neill’s older brother Jamie) grasps at a last chance at love under the full moonlight. This paperback edition features an insightful introduction by Stephen A. Black, helpful to anyone who desires a deeper understanding of O’Neill’s work.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"The last play that Eugene O'Neill wrote, A Moon for the Misbegotten was never successful during his lifetime, but has since become recognized as one of his greatest theatrical achievements -- a unique blend of comedy, tragedy, autobiography and imagination.

"Everything about it is so tremendous that it reduces almost every other modern drama to virtual pettiness."

-- Richard Watts

"A beautiful play, possibly O'Neill's best....The free creative impulse is allowed more play here than in the directly autobiographical Long Day's Journey into Night....Life is made on the wing rather than painstakingly remembered. It is an honest life and, for O'Neill, an unusually lyric one; the crafty, the damned and the forgiving breathe."

-- Walter Kerr

From the Inside Flap:

The last play of O'Neill - recognized as one of his greatest theatrical achievements - a unique blend of comedy, tragedy, autobiography, and imagination.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300118155
• ISBN 13: 9780300118155
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176