When one character in this play protests "Hain't I yer lawful wife?" her husband answers, "Yew air my Rose of Sharon...
When one character in this play protests "Hain't I yer lawful wife?" her husband answers, "Yew air my Rose of Sharon... yer two breasts air like two fawns." In the first act of this play, a bag of gold coins found under the floorboards helps two minor characters finance a trip to California, while during a celebration in the third act, an old man's dancing tires out the fiddler. After being (*) seduced in his mother's parlor, a character in this play decides to go west to join his brothers, Sim and Peter, but returns after having gone to get the sheriff, who ends this play by remarking on the "jim-dandy farm" belonging to Ephraim. All that happens while he's taking away Abbie Putnam, the wife of Ephraim, who has smothered the child she had with Ephraim's son Eben. For 10 points identify this play about the Cabot family by Eugene O'Neill
When one character in this play protests "Hain't I yer lawful wife?" her husband answers, "Yew air my Rose of Sharon...
Desire Under the Elms