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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The Key, Desire Under the Elms, defiance of the code has produced superior films that would have been flattened under rigid adherence to the rules.

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

Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year�The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet.

From Time Magazine Archive

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