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    The Moon On The Caribbees: “But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”
    The Moon On The Caribbees: “But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”
    The Moon On The Caribbees: “But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”
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    The Moon On The Caribbees: “But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”

    By Eugene O'Neill

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    Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel bedroom in what is now Times Square, New York. Much of his childhood was spent in the comfort of books at boarding schools whilst his actor father was on the road and his Mother contended with her own demons. He spent only a year at University - Princeton - and various reasons have been given for his departure. However whatever his background and education denied or added to his development it is agreed amongst all that he was a playwright of the first rank and possibly America's greatest. His introduction of realism into American drama was instrumental in its development and paved a path for many talents thereafter. Of course his winning of both the Pulitzer Prize (4 times) and the Nobel Prize are indicative of his status. His more famous and later works do side with the disillusionment and personal tragedy of those on the fringes of society but continue to build upon ideas and structures he incorporated in his early one act plays. Eugene O'Neill suffered from various health problems, mainly depression and alcoholism. In the last decade he also faced a Parkinson's like tremor in his hands which made writing increasingly difficult. But out of such difficulties came plays of the calibre of The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Eugene O'Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his last words: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room."

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 17, 2014
    ISBN9781783949625
    The Moon On The Caribbees: “But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”
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    Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O’Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the US the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with international playwrights Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and August Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day’s Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest US plays in the twentieth century, alongside Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

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      The Moon On The Caribbees - Eugene O'Neill

      The Moon Of The Caribbees by Eugene O’Neill

      Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel bedroom in what is now Times Square, New York.  Much of his childhood was spent in the comfort  of books at boarding schools whilst his actor father was on the road and his Mother contended with her own demons.  He spent only a year at University - Princeton - and various reasons have been given for his departure.

      However whatever his background and education denied or added to his development it is agreed amongst all that he was a playwright of the first rank and possibly America's greatest.  His introduction of realism into American drama was instrumental in its development and paved a path for many talents thereafter.  Of course his winning of both the Pulitzer Prize (4 times) and the Nobel Prize are indicative of his status.  His more famous and later works do side with the disillusionment and personal tragedy of those on the fringes of society but continue to build upon ideas and structures he incorporated in his early one act plays.

      Eugene O'Neill suffered from various health problems, mainly depression and alcoholism.  In the last decade he also faced a Parkinson's like tremor in his hands which made writing increasingly difficult. But out of such difficulties came plays of the calibre of  The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten.

      Eugene O'Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his last words: I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.

      Index Of Contents

      Characters

      Scene

      Eugene O’Neill – A Short Biography

      Eugene O’Neill – A Concise Bibliography

      CHARACTERS

      Seaman of the British Tramp steamer, Glencairn

      YANK

      DRISCOLL

      OLSON

      DAVIS

      COCKY

      SMITTY

      PAUL

      LAMPS, the lamptrimmer

      CHIPS, the carpenter

      OLD TOM, the donkeyman

      Firemen on the Glencairn

      BIG FRANK

      DICK

      MAX

      PADDY

      West Indian Negresses

      BELLA

      SUSIE

      VIOLET

      PEARL

      THE FIRST MATE

      Two other seamen—SCOTTY and IVAN—and several other members of the stokehole—engine room crew

      SCENE

      A forward section of the main deck of the British tramp steamer Glencairn, at anchor off an island in the West Indies. The full moon, half—way up the sky, throws a clear light on the deck. The sea is calm and the ship motionless.

      On the left two of the derrick booms of the foremast jut out at an angle of forty—five degrees, black against the sky. In the rear the dark outline of the port bulwark is sharply defined against a distant strip of coral beach, white in the moonlight, fringed with coco palms whose

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