Hughie

by Eugene O'Neill

Book Overview

Hughie, the only surviving manuscript from a series of eight one-act monologue plays that O'Neill planned in 1940, was completed in 1941. In the play, only two characters appear on stage; Hughie, the third and most important one, is dead. It is Hughie's innocence, gullibility, and need to believe in a far more exciting existence than he ever knew that gives purpose to the shabby livs of the two who remain. O'Neill here again writes of the defeated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300028814
• ISBN13: 9780300028812
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"