{"product_id":"the-iceman-cometh-9780300117431","title":"The Iceman Cometh","description":"\u003cb\u003eEugene O'Neill's darkest and most nihilistic play, with a foreword by Harold Bloom \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of \u003ci\u003eIceman \u003c\/i\u003eis its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in \u003ci\u003eIceman\u003c\/i\u003e, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion.\"--Harold Bloom, from the Introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. Eugene O'Neill--the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature--completed \u003ci\u003eIceman \u003c\/i\u003ein 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O'Neill's darkest and most nihilistic play. Since then, \u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e has gained enormously in stature; many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e (1888-1953), the father of American drama, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, and the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Invention of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhere Shall Wisdom Be Found?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644462928146,"sku":"9780300117431","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34fca400-374e-4659-99dc-b13d5a4aba25.jpg?v=1733110805","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-iceman-cometh-9780300117431","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}