Magnum Opus

Download or read book Magnum Opus written by Zander Brietzke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and provocative analysis of Eugene O'Neill's unfinished cycle play project 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.