After reading a letter from a girl, one character in this play dismisses suicide as cowardly even though he earlier asserted that he would have killed himself beautifully "if there'd been one of Hedda Gabler's pistols around."
This play's stage directions contrast a glass-doored bookcase with a smaller one containing books the characters "really have read." After reading a letter from a girl, one character in this play dismisses suicide as cowardly even though he earlier asserted that he would have killed himself beautifully "if there'd been one of Hedda Gabler's pistols around." Another character in this play causes his uncle, a reporter for the Waterbury Standard, to burst out laughing by solemnly claiming that Oscar Wilde was jailed for bigamy. Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution is praised by a character in this play who thinks that he is poisoned by a "peculiar oil" in bluefish. In this play, Yale student Wint Selby takes his friend's brother to smoke and drink at a hotel bar with the prostitute Belle. It ends with Nat wistfully quoting the Rubaiyat to his wife Essie in bed after blessing the relationship between Muriel and the socialistic Swinburne fan Richard. For 10 points, name this play about the Miller family's Fourth of July, the only comedy by Eugene O'Neill.
This play's stage directions contrast a glass-doored bookcase with a smaller one containing books the characters "really have read.
Ah, Wilderness!