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Tony Award-winner Fritz Weaver and Emmy-winner Nancy Marchand (Livia in The Sopranos) star in Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet. Set in a shabby tavern outside Boston in 1828, the play centers on Cornelius Melody (Weaver), a proud Irishman who clings to memories of European gentility. The play was conceived by O'Neill-regarded by many as America's greatest dramatist-as part of a nine-play chronicle spanning 175 years in the life of an American family. Like other O'Neill works such as A Moon for the Misbegotten and Long Day's Journey into Night, this play explores its characters' conflicts with reality and illusion, as well as their joys and sorrows in love.