The only American dramatist to win the nobel Prize for Literature, Eugene O'Neill was the dominant voice in American theatre throughout the 1920s and 1930s. This volume discusses his most popular plays.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Eugene O'Neill.
2: Biography of Eugene O'Neill.
Critical Contexts.
3: Playwright of the Modern World: Eugene O'Neill in Context.
4: The Critical Reception of the Works of Eugene O'Neill.
5: A Rhetorical Approach to O'Neill's Early Wife Characters.
6: O'Neill and the Lost Generation: O'Neill's Strange Interlude and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
Critical Readings.
7: “A Dense Fog Lies Heavily upon the Still Sea”: O'Neill's Sense of Place.
8: Eugene O'Neill's Tryst with the Power of Blackness.
9: Understanding Tragedy in Five O'Neill Plays.
10: The Impossible Representation of an Ideal America in Ah, Wilderness!.
11: O'Neill's Choric Designs in The Iceman Cometh.
12: Composing Memory in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.
13: Family Dynamics in O'Neill's Drama: The Diseased Body in Long Day's Journey into Night.
14: O'Neill and Autobiography.
15: O'Neill and the Nobel.
16: Acting Misbegotten: The Creative Journey to O'Neill.
