"Gold: A Play in Four Acts" by Eugene O'Neill is a compelling play set in the early 1900s that follows Captain Isaiah Bartlett and his crew after the wreck of their ship strands them on a desolate island in the Malay Archipelago. Confronted with dwindling supplies and oppressive heat, the mariners' situation grows dire when they discover a chest that they believe contains a priceless treasure, awakening within them a destructive greed and paranoia. The play examines the moral consequences of their actions, revealing how their desperation for wealth turns them against each other, leading to tragic betrayals and madness as they come to terms with the high price of unbridled ambition and the true value of human life.
Gold : $b A play in four acts
By Eugene O'Neill
Stranded sailors find a possible fortune that ignites greed and madness, transforming their fight for survival into a battle against themselves and threatening to destroy what little they have left.
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About the AuthorEugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
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