Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 256 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511999628
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
This is a volume of specially commissioned essays containing studies of Eugene O'Neill's life, his intellectual and creative forebears, and his relation to the theatrical world of his creative period, 1916–42. Also included are descriptions of the O'Neill canon and its production history on stage and screen, and a series of essays on 'special topics' related to the playwright, such as his treatment of women in the plays, his portrayals of Irish and African Americans, and his attempts to deal in dramatic terms with his parental family culminating in his greatest play, Long Day's Journey Into Night. One of the essays speaks for those who are critical of O'Neill's work, and the volume concludes with an essay on O'Neill criticism containing a select bibliography of full-length studies of the playwright's work
Content:
"Celebrant of loss" : Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953 / Stephen A. Black -- O'Neill's philosophical and literary paragons / Egil Törnqvist -- O'Neill and the theatre of his time / Daniel J. Watermeier -- From trial to triumph : the early plays / Margaret Loftus Ranald -- The middle plays / James A. Robinson -- The late plays / Normand Berlind -- Notable American stage productions / Ronald Wainscott -- O'Neill on screen / Kurt Eisen -- O'Neill's America : the strange interlude between the wars / Brenda Murphy -- O'Neill's African and Irish-Americans : stereotypes or "faithful realism"? / Edward L. Shaughnessy -- O'Neill's female characters / Judith E. Barlow -- "A tale of possessors self-dispossessed" / Donald Gallup -- Trying to write the family play : autobiography and the dramatic imagination / Jean Chothia -- The stature of Long day's journey into night / Michael Manheim -- O'Neill and the cult of sincerity / Matthew H. Wikander -- O'Neill criticism / Michael Manheim
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521553896
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521556453
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521553896
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL052155389X
