Overview
Character Name
Edmund Tyrone
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
August, 1912, Summer home, New England, Seaside
Analysis
Eugene O’Neill based the character of Edmund on himself. (Creepily, O’Neill gives his own name -- Eugene -- to Edmund and Jamie’s youngest brother, who died as an infant.) Like O’Neill, Edmund is a writer: ambitious, brilliant, brooding and deeply unsettled by his
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