The Iceman Cometh (9780300117431)
Paperback 219 pages English Aug 28, 2006
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Eugene O'Neill's darkest and most nihilistic play, with a foreword by Harold Bloom "We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."--Harold Bloom, from the Introduction The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. Eugene O'Neill--the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature--completed Iceman in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O'Neill's darkest and most nihilistic play. Since then, The Iceman Cometh has gained enormously in stature; many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama.
- Author:
- Eugene O'Neill
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 28, 2006
- Number of pages:
- 219 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0300117434
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300117431