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Paperback , internally unmarked, published by Dover USA in this edition 1995. There is a ghostmark from a price label on the front cover.
Before 1920 and the production of Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, Broadway theatergoers had subsisted largely on a diet of farce and contrived melodrama with an occasional European import of quality. With the arrival of O'Neill, American theater began to grow up. In the years that followed, the prolific playwright spun out a skein of dramatic masterpieces: Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night and many more, which almost singlehandedly created serious American theater and remain staples of the repertoire today.
Unfortunately, these towering later works have largely overshadowed O'Neill's earliest attempts at playwriting, which shed much light on the ideas and issues that concerned him and his first steps in learning his craft. This volume contains ten of these "lost" works, including his first play, A Wife for a Life (1913). Also included are The Movie Man, The Sniper, Abortion, Thirst, The Web, Warnings, Fog, Recklessness and the three-act Servitude. Although they do not rank with the later great plays, these dramas are not insignificant. As Lawrence Gellert remarks, "within certain limitations, in invention, power of execution, and psychological intensity, these early flights O'Neill are truly startling."
