| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| This classic American play features three sons. Their father has left their farm to find a wife. Eben, the youngest, maintains that the farm is his birthright. He buys out his half-brothers' shares with money stolen from his father. The other sons, Peter and Simeon, head off to California to seek their fortune. Later, the father returns with a new wife and things become complicated.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| As an updated Greek tragedy, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus. Though fate alone guides characters' actions in Greek tragedies, O'Neill's characters have motivations grounded in 1930s-era psychological theory as well.
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| (J M Barrie)
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| This story, "Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up," was first performed in 1904, well before the novel appeared. However, it was not published until much later. The novel is also available from this site.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| This play by Gordon Daviot or Josephine Tey (both pseudonyms of Elizabeth Macintosh) depicts the story of Richard II of England in a romantic fashion, emphasizing the relationship between Richard and his queen, Anne of Bohemia. Daviot wrote the play after seeing John Gielgud play Shakespeare's Richard II at the Old Vic Theatre, and submitted it to him for production. Gielgud had reservations about the play but agreed to test it out for two matinée performances at the Arts Theatre. He then agreed to direct it and star in it and it ran for over a year in the West End (a substantial run for its time) and catapulted Gielgud to the status of superstar. [Wikipedia]
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| (George Bernard Shaw)
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| Saint Joan is generally considered to be one of Shaw's better works. He had long considered writing about Joan of Arc, and her canonization in 1920 supplied a strong incentive. The play was an international success, and is believed to have led to his Nobel Prize in Literature. The play is based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc.
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| (Eugene O'Neill)
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| Strange Interlude was completed in 1923, but was not produced on Broadway until 1928, when it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The plot centres on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. [Wikipedia.]
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