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- Desire Under The Elms
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- (NOVEMBER 24, 1924)
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- Desire Under The Elms. Eugene G. O'Neill has contributed his
- first full-length play in two seasons and, many say, the best
- play of his invention. It is not a gentle evening, this beating
- with the hammer of tragedy on the rock-pile of New England farm
- life. It is the kind of thing the spectator will object to on
- the score that existence cannot possibly be so brutal. A young
- wife of an old farmer forfeits her claim to beatitude by lusting
- after the farmer's son. The latter have a child which stands
- between its father and his stony heritage of farm-land. He
- corrodes what little she has left of happiness in
- recriminations; and she smothers the child. The last step is the
- gallows.
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