Author : Robert M. Dowling
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1438108729
This study explores the personal, historical, and artistic influences that combined to form such dark and influential American masterpieces as 'The Iceman Cometh', 'The Emperor Jones', 'Mourning Becomes Electra', 'Hughie', and - arguably the finest tragedy ever written by an American - 'Long Day's Journey into Night'.
Author : James J. Martine
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN :
"If one were to climb the beanstalk of American drama, what would be discovered at the very top is a giant. His name is Eugene O'Neill. He towers above American drama like a colossus, and for many critics -- theatrical reviewers and scholars -- other playwrights were but petty things to walk under his huge legs and peep about. ...'Monumental' is the word most often used to describe O'Neill's work, from Strange Interlude to A Touch of the Poet. This word may be used as well to describe O'Neill and his reputation. No one ever accused O'Neill, or his work, of being too small." So says editor Martine in introducing this collection with his own compendious bibliography of O'Neill scholarship. ISBN 0-8161-8683-9 : $28.50.
Author : Stephen A. Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300093995
Stricken with guilt and grief when his father, mother and brother died in quick succession, Eugene O'Neill mourned deeply for two decades. This critical biography presents an understanding of O'Neill's life, work and slow grieving.
Author : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1993-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 031327617X
Extolled and maligned, Eugene O'Neill was unquestionably the first American playwright of international stature, and his major plays, such as The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, remain giants of the American stage. Acres of print have been devoted to O'Neill by theatre critics and literary scholars. This new collection assesses the full range of critical response, considered historically through the entire oeuvre and covering major themes and critical stances. It culls from opening night reviews of premieres and revivals as well as scholarly essays from influential critics and anonymous writers, from boosters and detractors, with the uniqueness of the critical observation being the main criterion for selection. An introduction outlines the major issues and avenues of O'Neill discourse, and a selective bibliography provides additional sources for O'Neill study.
Author : Michael Manheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521556453
Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 1982-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822205432
THE STORY: Originally produced on Broadway, revived to sellout houses in 1996 starring Al Pacino, HUGHIE was one of O'Neill's last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill de
Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780878054473
This collection of thirty years of interviews with America's only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing. A profoundly private individual, O'Neill struggled throughout his life to overcome his intense discomfort with oral discourse as he responded to the probings of interviewers wishing him to discuss a wide range of social, political, literary, and theatrical issues. Collected in their entirety for the first time, these interviews begin in 1920, when O'Neill was thirty-two. Serious American drama, for many, began and, for many others, ended with Eugene O'Neill. This collection lends new testimony to the truth of that assertion.
Author : M. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137043938
Eugene O'Neill, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner, is widely known for his full length plays. However, his one-act plays are the foundation of his work - both thematically and stylistically, they telescope his later plays. This collection aims to fill the gap by examining these texts, during what can be considered O'Neill's formative writing years, and the foundational period of American drama. A wide-ranging investigation into O'Neill's one-acts, the contributors shed light on a less-explored part of his career and assist scholars in understanding O'Neill's entire oeuvre.
Author : Thierry Dubost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1476635684
The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or "the problem play," O'Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.
Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300190182
divEugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and critical perspectives; glosses of literary allusions and quotations; notes on the performance history; an annotated bibliography; and illustrations. "This is a worthy new edition, one that I'm sure will appeal to many students and teachers. William Davies King provides a thoughtful introduction to Long Day's Journey into Night—equally sensitive to the most particular and most encompassing of the play's materials."—Marc Robinson/DIV
