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The Great God Brown

The Great God Brown

The Great God Brown is a play by Eugene O'Neill, first staged in 1926. O'Neill began writing notes for the play in 1922 – "Play of masks – removable – the man who really is and the mask he wears before the world" – and wrote the play between January and March 1925. Noted for its use of masks the play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1925-1926.


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“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!”

Eugene O'Neill The Great God Brown

Act 4, Scene 1
The Great God Brown (1926)

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