Characters:
- General Ezra Mannon
- Christine
- Orin
- Lavinia
Summary:
- updates the Greek myth of Orestes to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War
- Agamemnon is General Ezra Mannon, Clytemnestra is Christine, Orestes is Orin and Electra is Lavinia
- the play is divided into three plays of four to five acts each - "Homecoming", "The Hunted", "The Haunted"
The Iceman Cometh
Characters:
- Harry Hope
- Hickey
Summary:
- stages the story of the whiskey-soaked and disillusioned denizens of Harry Hope's saloon and the upheaval caused by the newly sober salesman Hickey who, with all the annoying zeal of a recent convert, urges his former drinking companions to give up their "pipe dreams"
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Characters:
- James Tyrone Sr.
- Edmund
- James Jr.
- Mary Cavan Tyrone
Summary:
- covers a fateful, heart-wrenching night at the seaside Conneticut home of the Tyrones
- James Tyrone Sr. is an Irish-born retired actor who squandered his gifts as a clasical thespian to make a career playing a particular role in a commercially successful but artistically unfulfilling play
- Edmund, the younger son, suffers from a respiratory condition and a deep disillusionment with the world around him after sailing the world as a deck hand
- James Jr. is an affable alcoholic and the object of stubborn attempts by his father to be set up in business
- Mary lapses between self-delusion and the haze of her morphine addiction as a result of the shoddy ministrations of a quack doctor during her difficult labor and delivery of Edmund years ago
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