| re: ‘Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work,’ reports The New York Times |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:14 pm EDT 07/04/17 |
| In reply to: re: ‘Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work,’ reports The New York Times - lordofspeech 08:59 pm EDT 07/04/17 |
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IIRC, O'Neill thought he had destroyed everything he had written for his unfinished cycle "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed." I can't recall the specifics but his plans for the cycle (in terms of how many plays it was to comprise) got bigger once or twice along the way when he working on it. Two of the plays, A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions, managed to survive. Since he thought all copies had been destroyed, he may not have bothered putting any prohibition in his will on the publication and production of the plays. A long time ago, I knew more about this. Probably a search online would bring more info.
Hughie was also to have been part of a cycle, to be known as "By Way of Obit.' He completed one other play in the cycle, but he destroyed it along with notes on some other plays planned for the cycle. I'm not sure if he thought he had destroyed Hughie. |
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