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Desire Under the Elms

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noun

  1. a play (1924) by Eugene O'Neill.


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She won the Critics' Circle Award in 2012 for most promising newcomer for Desire Under the Elms at the Lyric Hammersmith.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2016

In O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, he had two loads of farm equipment of clearly different weights placed just off the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Desire Under the Elms concerns more than an actual fight over land: its harsh primitivism seeks to lay bare a crippling Puritanism, to paint a gaunt New England landscape of the mind and will.

From Time Magazine Archive

Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore.

From Time Magazine Archive

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