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Magnum Opus
The Cycle Plays of Eugene O'Neill
From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O'Neill worked on a series of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations. He completed just two of the proposed eleven plays – "A Touch of the Poet" and "More Stately Mansions" – which Zander Brietzke argues represent the core of the entire cycle. Combining archival research, literary analysis, and theatrical imagination, Magnum Opus invites an audience to see this unusual and exciting epic as a historical drama of our time.
About the author
Zander Brietzke is the author of "The Aesthetics of Failure", "American Drama in the Age of Film", and "Action and Consequence in Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg". A former president of the Eugene O'Neill Society, he taught modern and contemporary drama at Columbia University.