Author: Eugene O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Plays: Strange interlude. Desire under the elms. Lazarus laughed. The fountain. The moon of the Caribbees. Bound east for Cardiff. The long voyage home. In the zone. Ile. Where the cross is made. The rope. The dreamy kid. Before breakfast
Author: Eugene O'NeillA Study of the Modern Drama
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: Strange interlude. Desire under the elms. Lazarus laughed. The fountain. The moon of the Caribbees. Bound east for Cardiff. The long voyage home. In the zone. Ile. Where the cross is made. The rope. The dreamy kid. Before breakfast
Author: Eugene O'NeillStruggle, Defeat or Rebirth
Author: Thierry DubostPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786424192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
To Eugene O'Neill, the links between man and his surroundings were of prime importance. His characters struggled with existential problems, and how they related to them reveals much about O'Neill's own humanity. For the most part, the characters defeat their problems and in doing so are "reborn" in some manner. This work examines the 49 plays that O'Neill completed, focusing on his attempt to find an inner truth in his characters. Part One explores the family, showing how a person is trapped by heredity, space, time and communal hierarchy. Part Two deals with the individual and society, showing how societal conventions confined the characters. In Part Three, personal freedom is the centerpiece, showing how the characters develop a specific approach to life that leads to a coherent vision of the characters' relationships with the world around them.
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Author: Eugene O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780394608075
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill
Author: Michael ManheimPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556453
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Eugene O'Neill's Tragic Vision
Author: Chandreshwar Prasad SinhaPublisher:
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Category : American drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Study of the works of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, b. 1888, American playwright.
Another Part of a Long Story
Author: William Davies KingPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472027050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
"An engrossing biography about the marital breakdown of a major literary figure, of particular interest for what it reveals about O'Neill's creative process, activities, and bohemian lifestyle at the time of his early successes and some of his most interesting experimental work. In addition, King's discussion of Boulton's efforts as a writer of pulp fiction in the early part of the 20th century reveals an interesting side of popular fiction writing at that time, and gives insight into the lifestyle of the liberated woman." ---Stephen Wilmer, Trinity College, Dublin Biographers of American playwright Eugene O'Neill have been quick to label his marriage to actress Carlotta Monterey as the defining relationship of his illustrious career. But in doing so, they overlook the woman whom Monterey replaced---Agnes Boulton, O'Neill's wife of over a decade and mother to two of his children. O'Neill and Boulton were wed in 1918---a time when she was a successful pulp novelist and he was still a little-known writer of one-act plays. During the decade of their marriage, he gained fame as a Broadway dramatist who rejected commercial compromise, while she mapped that contentious territory known as the literary marriage. His writing reflected her, and hers reflected him, as they tried to realize progressive ideas about what a marriage should be. But after O'Neill left the marriage, he and new love Carlotta Monterey worked diligently to put Boulton out of sight and mind---and most O'Neill biographers have been quick to follow suit. William Davies King has brought Agnes Boulton to light again, providing new perspectives on America's foremost dramatist, the dynamics of a literary marriage, and the story of a woman struggling to define herself in the early twentieth century. King shows how the configuration of O'Neill and Boulton's marriage helps unlock many of O'Neill's plays. Drawing on more than sixty of Boulton's published and unpublished writings, including her 1958 memoir, Part of a Long Story, and an extensive correspondence, King rescues Boulton from literary oblivion while offering the most radical revisionary reading of the work of Eugene O'Neill in a generation. William Davies King is Professor of Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of several books, most recently Collections of Nothing, chosen by Amazon.com as one of the Best Books of 2008. Illustration: Eugene O'Neill, Shane O'Neill, and Agnes Boulton ca. 1923. Eugene O'Neill Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Author: Eugene O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama
Author: Sanford SternlichtPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629399
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater.