Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill

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Collection of four plays by Eugene O'Neill, organized through a table of contents covering multiple acts and scenes for each work. Includes Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, and The Hairy Ape, followed by an afterword. Front matter provides publication and copyright details for the Signet Classics edition and a historical introduction outlining O'Neill’s career milestones, major awards, and key works. Includes author and biographer notes plus production and rights statements.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages198

Reading Time5 h 5 min

AccessFree to download

Table of Contents

Beyond the Horizon

The Emperor Jones

Anna Christie

The Hairy Ape

Afterword

Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction BEYOND THE HORIZON ACT ONE ACT ONE ACT TWO ACT TWO ACT THREE ACT THREE THE EMPEROR JONES SCENE ONE SCENE TWO SCENE THREE SCENE FOUR SCENE FIVE SCENE SIX SCENE SEVEN SCENE EIGHT ANNA CHRISTIE ACT ONE ACT TWO ACT THREE ACT FOUR THE HAIRY APE SCENE ONE SCENE TWO SCENE THREE SCENE FOUR SCENE FIVE SCENE SIX SCENE SEVEN SCENE EIGHT AFTERWORD Eugene O‘Neill (1888-1953) was born in New York City. His first big success was Beyond the Horizon (1920), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Other plays from his early period include The Emperor Jones (1920), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Christie (1921), and Desire Under the Elms (1924) . His third Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude (1928), was followed by the trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra (1932), and the uncharacteristically comic Ah, Wilderness! (1933) . A hiatus from the theater followed, during which O’Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936, the only American playwright to be so honored. He ended his twelve-year absence from Broadway with The Iceman Cometh in 1946. His masterpiece, Long Day s’ Journey Into Night, was written in 1941, but published and produced posthumously in 1956, when it won O’Neill ’s fourth Pulitzer Prize. A. R. Gurney, winner of the 1987 Award of Merit from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, is the author of numerous plays, including The Dining Room, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, and Later Life. He taught literature at MIT for twenty-five years and in 2006 was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb are authors of the 1962 seminal bestselling biography O‘Neill. The first volume of their revised O’Neill biography was published in 2000, and they are at work on the final volume. Mr. Gelb is former managing editor of The New York Times and has had a long career as an author outside the paper, most recently with his memoir, City Room. Ms. Gelb is the author of My Gene, a play based on O‘Neill ’s widow starring Collen Dewhurst. She is the author of, among other books, So Short a Time, a biography of John Reed and Louise Bryant, early colleagues of O’Neill. In 2006 the Gelbs collaborated with Ric Burns in writing the PBS documentary O’Neill. SIGNET CLASSICS Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. , 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd. , 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia) . 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. , 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0745, Auckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd. , 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd. , Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Published by Signet Classics, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. First Signet Classics Printing, February 1998 First Signet Classics Printing (Gelb Afterword), August 2007 Introduction copyright © A. R. Gurney, 1998 Afterword copyright © Stone Group, Inc. , 2007 All rights reserved REGISTERED TRADEMARK—MARCA REGISTRADA eISBN : 978-1-101-07616-3 The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not parti

FAQs

Which four plays are included in this collection?

The collection contains Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, and The Hairy Ape.

How is the book structured for each play?

Each play is laid out in acts and scenes, with separate sections listed in the table of contents.

What additional material is provided beyond the plays themselves?

The document includes an afterword and an introduction that discusses Eugene O'Neill’s life and career milestones.

Sep 18, 2026

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