Eugene O'Neill, A Touch of the Poet

Per Brask (University of Winnipeg)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1953

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Eugene O’Neill wrote A Touch of the Poet while living in Tao House in Danville, California. He started working on it in 1935 under the title of Hair of the Dog. It was initially intended to be part of a large cycle of, eventually, eleven plays on American history from 1754 to 1932, entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. The cycle was never completed. Only A Touch of the Poet was completed and More Stately Mansions was near-completion when O’Neill died in 1953.

O’Neill never got to see A Touch of the Poet on stage. Its first production was in Sweden at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in 1957. Its first US production was at the Helen Hays Theatre in New York City in 1…

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Citation: Brask, Per. "A Touch of the Poet". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 December 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10791, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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