Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, 2-Volume Set - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, 2-Volume Set write by Robert M. Dowling. This book was released on 2009. Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, 2-Volume Set available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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'.
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eugene O'Neill write by Robert M. Dowling. This book was released on 2014-10-28. Eugene O'Neill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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American upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of O’Neill’s desire to become a novelist and what this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
Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays
Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays write by M. Bennett. This book was released on 2012-08-06. Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill write by Michael Manheim. This book was released on 1998-09-24. The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Transfiguring Tragedy
Transfiguring Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transfiguring Tragedy write by Ryder Thornton. This book was released on 2024-07-19. Transfiguring Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, concluding with The Hairy Ape, completed in 1921, as an illustration of the mastery he had achieved in dramatizing key concepts of philosophy. Analyses of one-act and full-length plays from 1913 to 1921 reveal the influence of the three philosophers and establish that O’Neill was fundamentally a philosophic playwright, even from his earliest dramatic sketches. Specific concepts from Schopenhauer, Stirner, and Nietzsche went into O’Neill’s shaping of character arcs, dramatic circumstances, symbology, and theme. Among them are Schopenhauer’s concept of will and representation, Stirner’s notion of possession, and Nietzsche’s principle of the Apollonian–Dionysian duality. These ideas were foundational to O’Neill’s construction of tragic irony apparent in his early period plays. The critical concepts of these three philosophers are the major pathways in this study. However, such an approach inevitably reveals other layers of spiritual influence, such as Catholicism and Eastern philosophy, which are touched on in these analyses. This book is a much-needed introduction to philosophic concepts in Eugene O’Neill’s early work and would be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre studies and philosophy.
