More Stately Mansions

play by O’Neill

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"More Stately Mansions" is an unfinished play by Eugene O'Neill, a Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist. It was part of an ambitious, but ultimately incomplete, cycle of 11 plays intended to trace an American family's history. O'Neill's work often drew from his own difficult family life, exploring themes of tragedy, addiction, and disillusionment. While "More Stately Mansions" was published and produced posthumously in 1964 and 1967 respectively, O'Neill had instructed that the incomplete manuscript be destroyed. His most famous works include "Long Day's Journey into Night" and "The Iceman Cometh".12

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…another of the cycle plays, More Stately Mansions, was published in 1964 and produced three years later on Broadway, in spite of written instructions left by O’Neill that the incomplete manuscript be destroyed after his death.
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…another of the cycle plays, More Stately Mansions, was published in 1964 and produced three years later on Broadway, in spite of written instructions left by O’Neill that the incomplete manuscript be destroyed after his death.
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