A Touch of the Poet
A Drama, Theatre, Plays book. Apparently this play was a part of a huge planned cycle of plays that O'Neill was working on. This...
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- Pages: 138 pages
- ISBN: 9780224605533 / 224605534
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I enjoy Eugene O'Neill's plays and this one drew me with powerful themes of illusion vs reality, hope for a better future vs family dysfunction in the now. The disillusioned alcoholic father Con likes quoting Lord Byron poems while admiring himself in the mirror. Meanwhile his world crumbles. The theme reminds me of O'Neill's Long Day's... GABRIEL BYRNE! Apparently this play was a part of a huge planned cycle of plays that O'Neill was working on. This one does work as a stand-alone play, but maybe not on the level of his best. What I did enjoy about this one is that the dialect change by the main character Con Melody from patrician English to Irish brogue works very well. In previous...
