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The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

Bloom, Harold
O'Neill, Eugene

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ISBN10: 0300117434
ISBN13: 9780300117431
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Aug 1 2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.02 Depth: 7.84
Language: English
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.

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