The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings by Eugene O'Neill, Paperback, 9781854591517 | Buy online at The Nile
The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings, 9781854591517
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The first play tells of an animalistic stoker, who, spurned by a society woman, breaks out of the engine room and goes in search of himself in the “real” world. The second play deals with a mixed marriage, in which the jealous white wife destroys her black husband’s chances of a career.

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    105 pages

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    8 March 1994

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Summary

Two powerful expressionist plays from the early career of one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers.

The Hairy Ape is a nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

Robert ‘Yank’ Smith, an animalistic stoker, breaks free from his engine-room confines when he is spurned by the glamorous society woman, Mildred Douglas. Looking to find his free self out in the ‘real’ world, Yank goes on th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781854591517
ISBN-10:1854591517
Author:Eugene O'Neill
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Imprint:Nick Hern Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:105
Release Date:8 March 1994
Weight:150g
Dimensions:199mm x 127mm x 7mm
Series:The O'Neill Collection
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Critics Review

‘O’Neill’s play is an existentialist rollercoaster powered by a poetry’

‘A stark and forceful piece’

* Exuent Magazine *

‘O’Neill’s play is an existentialist rollercoaster powered by a poetry’

* Time Out *

‘In a time of austerity and job losses the playwright’s rant against the ruling classes, giving voice to the embittered working man, does not go amiss’

* Londonist *

About The Author

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) was an American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His plays include: Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933), The Iceman Cometh (1946) and Long Day’s Journey into Night (produced posthumously 1956).

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