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Tiusanen suggested that "It is conceivable that the criterion of those most eager to shorten O'Neill has been a play with a tightly knit plot. The Iceman Cometh is a play...
Oct 1, 2020 · O’Neill’s offstage women in The Iceman Cometh have been read in two important ways: Virginia Floyd makes autobiographical connections, showing how the major offstage women characters “form a composite picture of O’Neill’s mother,” Mary Ellen “Ella” O’Neill.
Plot summary. The Iceman Cometh is set in New York in 1912 in Harry Hope's downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house. The patrons, twelve men and three prostitutes, are dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another's company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1939
Full Play Summary. The play opens on an early summer morning in 1912 in the crowded back room of Harry Hope's saloon. The majority of the customers sleep slumped over their tables. Rocky, the night bartender, sneaks Larry Slade, a former Syndicalist-Anarchist, a drink of whiskey.
Tiusanen suggested that “It is conceivable that the criterion of those most eager to shorten O’Neill has been a play with a tightly knit plot. The Iceman Cometh is a play of another kind.” Berlin agreed that extensive cutting does a disservice to the play.
Aug 6, 2020 · If Long Day’s Journey into Night is Eugene O’Neill’s greatest personal and dramatic achievement in exorcizing and universalizing his family demons, The Iceman Cometh is his most profound play, contending not with a family’s tragedy but humanity’s.
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The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill is a play that uses allegory to convey its themes. The play is set in a saloon, where a group of down-and-out alcoholics have gathered to drink and forget their troubles.
