Hughie, the only surviving manuscript from a series of eight one-act monologue plays that O'Neill planned in 1940, was completed in 1941. In the play, only two characters appear on stage; Hughie, the third and most important one, is dead. It is Hughie's innocence, gullibility, and need to believe in a far more exciting existence than he ever knew that gives purpose to the shabby livs of the two who remain. O'Neill here again writes of the defeated and the courage that comes by way of illusions.
- ISBN10 0300028814
- ISBN13 9780300028812
- Publish Date 1 September 1982
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 37
- Language English