Him (Cummings play)

Him
Written byE. E. Cummings
CharactersThere are 105 characters
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Date premieredApril 19, 1928 (1928-04-19)
Place premieredProvincetown Playhouse
Original languageEnglish
Genre

Him is a three-act play written by poet E.E. Cummings. The play was first published in November 1927 and premiered in New York during the spring of 1928. Him is sometimes called a precursor to Theatre of the Absurd but has also been described as being surrealistic and in the German expressionist tradition. It is heavily influenced by Freudian psychology as well as popular culture of the 1920s.