Eugene O'Neill's Family

O'Neill uses stage directions to annotate his play. Edmund is the one who quotes the most poetry and for example, if it's this part he recites the Simmons translation of Baudelaire's epilogue. The father wants him to be reading Shakespeare because he believes that everything is in Shakespeare. And when Jamie comes in in the fourth act, absolutely drunk and drunk to the point that O'Neill is actually writing out all the slurs in his speech, he's quoting from Kipling.