[PDF] Eugene Oneills America eBook

Author : John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459605918

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In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with aud...

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher :
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 1988
Category : American drama
ISBN :

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A wire for Live, the Web, thirst, recklessness, warnings, fog, bread and butter, Bound East for Cardiff, aAbortion, the movie man, servitude, the sniper, the personal eqauation, before breakfast, now I ask you, in the zone, ile, the long voyage home, the moon of the caribbees, the robe, beyond the horizon, shell shock, the dreamy kid, where the cross is made, the straw, Chris Christophersen, gold, anna Christie, and the Emperor Jones.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780878054473

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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 : Stephen A. Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300093995

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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 : Robert M. Dowling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300210590

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An “absorbing” biography of the playwright and Nobel laureate that “unflinchingly explores the darkness that dominated O’Neill’s life” (Publishers Weekly). This extraordinary biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama, innovatively highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories as well as the culture and history of his time. Much is new in this extensively researched book: connections between O’Neill’s plays and his political and philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish American upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of O’Neill’s desire to become a novelist and what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling revelation about the release of Long Day’s Journey Into Night in defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is also the first to discuss O’Neill’s lost play Exorcism (a single copy of which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own suicide attempt. Written with both a lively informality and a scholar’s strict accuracy, Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography worthy of America’s foremost playwright. “Fast-paced, highly readable . . . building to a devastating last act.” —Irish Times

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300190182

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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

Author : Travis Bogard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 0195053419

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This study attempts to trace Eugene O'Neill's theatrical contour from its origin to its end, by discussing each of his works in the approximate chronological order of composition. The book is thus a form of biography, although it pays no heed to those events of O'Neill's life that did not have direct bearing on his professional career. By virtue of O'Neill's central position in the drama of the modern world, this study also has become, within the limits its subject sets for it, a form of theatrical history. An appendix contains a complete factual record of important productions of O'Neill's plays. ISBN 0-19-504548-3 (pbk.): $12.95.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1999-10-29
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780805061703

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A beautifully presentation of O'Neill's moving elegy to his dog Silverdene Emblem O'Neill (Blemie), illustrated with 25 color photos.

Author : Michael Manheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521556453

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Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Author : James J. Martine
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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"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.