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  2. 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
  3. Aug 6, 2020 · Critic Robert Brustein has stated that The Iceman Cometh is about “the impossibility of salvation in a world without God.” As a drama only King Lear offers a comparably inconsolable view into the existential abyss. In American literature the play’s only rival in questioning ultimates is Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick.

  4. Oct 1, 2020 · O’Neill wrote The Iceman Cometh at Tao House, his home in Danville, California, between June 8 and November 26, 1939, and completed a near-final draft in December 1939—one of the most horrifying periods in modern history: Hitler’s army invaded Poland and commenced a policy of genocide against Jews and other populations of Europe, Great ...

  5. The Iceman Cometh is noted for its dark realism; its setting and characters closely resemble real life. The world of the play is a cruel place. Despair is a constant presence, love only an illusion, and death something to which one looks forward.

  6. The Iceman Cometh, tragedy in four acts by Eugene O’Neill, written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946 and considered by many to be his finest work. The drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  7. Richard Leonard Kuklinski (/ k ʊ ˈ k l ɪ n s k i /; April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006), also known as the Iceman, was an American criminal and a convicted murderer. He was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life; he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography .

  8. Mar 19, 2021 · The Iceman Cometh percolated in Eugene O'Neill's mind as the Blitzkrieg overran Poland and initiated the catastrophe of World War II.