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More Stately Mansions - The Unexpurgated Edition (Hardcover, Unexpurgated Ed)
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More Stately Mansions - The Unexpurgated Edition (Hardcover, Unexpurgated Ed)
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More Stately Mansions represents the first printing of the complete
and unexpurgated version of Eugene O'Neill's play, prepared from
the original typescript housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library at Yale University. The sixth in a line of
eleven plays O'Neill planned but never finished, the play was part
of a cycle he called A Tale Possessors Self-Dispossessed. The cycle
would have spanned several generations and traced the Harford
family's pursuit of material gain from 1755-1932. O'Neill completed
and published only one other cycle play, A Touch of the Poet.
Arguing that the 1964 edition of More Stately Mansions, prepared
after the playwright's death, was missing a substantial amount of
material that O'Neill intended for inclusion, Martha Bower presents
an entirely new edition of the play with this material - dialogue,
character description, an entire scene, the epilogue, and large
parts of other scenes - restored. Written in 1939, and set in the
1830s and 1840s, the play is still of contemporary importance in
its frank exposure of the devious intrigues of an American family's
exploitation of a business opportunity. O'Neill's enlightened
vision fostered the creation of two strong, intelligent women
characters and the candid portrayal of a family dominated by love,
hate, and jealousy. Reflecting the playwright's own unresolved
family and sexual tensions, Bower holds that More Stately Mansions
is, in fact, more true to the reality of his own essential pain
than the so-called autobiographical plays. This restored and
complete edition of More Stately Mansions will stand as an
important contribution to O'Neill scholarship.
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