Author: Mary Jane GustafsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn Center (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Iceman Cometh
Author: Eugene O'NeillPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This is a play that revolves around a group of alcoholics who live together in a flop house above a saloon. They always discuss their dreams but never take a step toward actualizing them. This group of misfits always awaits the coming of the salesman whose name is Hickey. Hickey determines to strip them of their pipe dreams and then reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his wife.
The Iceman Cometh-- and Then He Fadeth Away
Author: Mary Jane GustafsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn Center (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays
Author: Doris AlexanderPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This study draws on research concerning the lives of Eugene O'Neill, his family and his circle. It corrects and expands the biographical record on him and distinguishes the man and his life from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. Included are his attempted suicide, his tuberculosis, and his relationship with his parents.
Libraries in the News
Author: The New York Times Theatre Reviews 1999-2000
Author: New York Times Theater ReviewsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415936972
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
American Drama
Author: Gary A. RichardsonPublisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary is intended for students of American Drama in English, Theatre, and American Studies courses. Its primary aim is to provide students with a broad historical sense of the transofrmations of American drama from its beginnings to the presnt, making certain that this historical sense is as diverse as possible. As the most comprehensive anthology of American drama available for classroom use, it is a hope that this anthology will foster in the reader an appreciation of the diversity and vitality of the American experience as expressed through drama.
Plays
Author: Eugene Gladstone O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought
Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114609
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
First published in 1973, this collection of Chekhov's correspondence is widely regarded as the best introduction to this great Russian writer. Weighted heavily toward the correspondence dealing with literary and intellectual matters, this extremely informative collection provides fascinating insight into Chekhov's development as a writer. Michael Henry Heim's excellent translation and Simon Karlinsky's masterly headnotes make this volume an essential text for anyone interested in Chekhov.
Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Author: Eugene O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
By Women Possessed
Author: Arthur GelbPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399159118
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Celebrated for their books on Eugene O’Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize–winning American playwright. This is a tour through both a magical moment in American theater and the troubled life of a genius. Not a peep show or a celebrity gossip fest, this book is a brilliant investigation of the emotional knots that ensnared one of our most important playwrights. Handsome, charming when he wanted to be: O’Neill was the flame women were drawn to—all, that is, except his mother, who never let him forget he was unwanted. By Women Possessed follows O’Neill through his great successes, the failures he was able to shrug off, and the long eclipse, a twelve-year period in which, despite the Nobel, nothing he wrote was produced. But ahead lay his greatest achievements: The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into Night. Both were ahead of their time and both received lukewarm receptions. It wasn’t until after his death that his widow, the keeper of the flame, began a fierce and successful campaign to restore his reputation. The result is that today, just over 125 years after his birth, O’Neill is a towering presence in the theater, his work—always in performance here and abroad—still electrifying audiences. Perhaps of equal importance, he is the acknowledged father of modern American theater, the man who paved the way for the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and a host of others. But, as Williams has said, at a cost: “O’Neill gave birth to the American theater and died for it.”