NHB Classic Plays
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On the Evils of Tobacco
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
A bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
All God's Chillun Got Wings
An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.
Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
Desire Under the Elms
A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.
Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
The Emperor Jones
An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.
Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
The Great God Brown
A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.
Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
The Hairy Ape
A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.
Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
