A Touch of the Poet - Acting Edition

"A Touch of the Poet" is a play by Eugene O'Neill. It and its sequel, "More Stately Mansions", were intended to be part of a nine-play cycle entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. Set in the dining room of Melody's Tavern, located in a village a few miles from Boston, it centers on Major Cornelius Melody, a braggart, social climber, and victim of the American class system in 1828 Massachusetts. Einstein Books' edition of "A Touch Of The Poet" contains supplementary texts: An excerpt from O'Neill's "More Stately Mansions", the sequel to "A Touch Of The Poet". Childe Harold s Pilgrimage, By Lord Byron. (The poetry of Byron is a feature of "A Touch Of The Poet). A Few Selected Quotes Of Eugene O Neill.