Eugene O Neill And American Society

Author : Ivonne Shafer
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788437083506

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Eugene O'Neill and American Society by Ivonne Shafer Pdf

En su duodécimo libro, Yvonne Shafer se centra una vez más en Eugene O'Neill. Su libro anterior, 'Performing O'Neill', presentaba información fascinante sobre los actores (James Earl jones, Jason Robards, etc.) que crearon sus papeles. 'Eugene O'Neill and American Society' se aparta del análisis biográfico familiar de las obras hacia aspectos como su actitud antibélica, su interacción con los afroamericanos, su sorprendente amor por los musicales y su caracterización de mujer. Shafer que ha participado en el mundo del teatro como actriz, directora, crítica y erudita, ha impartido clases y conferencias en lugares como China, Noruega y Bélgica. Su representación de Eugene O'Neil On Stage ha deleitado al público de Alemania, Estados Unidos y la Universitat de València entre otros lugares de España.

Author : John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459605916

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Eugene O'Neill's America by John Patrick Diggins Pdf

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 : Robert M. Dowling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300210590

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Eugene O'Neill by Robert M. Dowling Pdf

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 : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300190182

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Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

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 : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822213931

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A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

THE STORY: As told by Chapman, (NY News): The time of the play is 1828, and the setting is a tavern in a village near Boston. The tavern is owned by a tempestuous Irishman, Con Melody, who is as proud as he is ill-tempered. He had been born with w

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822205432

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Hughie by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

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 : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0878054472

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Conversations with Eugene O'Neill by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

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 : Eugene O'Neill,Jackson Bryer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300043740

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Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill by Eugene O'Neill,Jackson Bryer Pdf

Provides a representative selection of O'Neill's voluminous correspondence written over a fifty-year period to intimate friends and family and to literary and theatrical personalities.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547319344

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The Great God Brown by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

"The Great God Brown" is a play by Eugene O'Neal dealing with the topic of human personality and social image. To express this, all the characters in the play, except a prostitute Cybel, wear masks covering their real identities. According to the plot, two young men, sons of wealthy landowners, fall in love with one girl, Margaret. Yet, Margaret has to decide what she loves most: a mask of a man or his real personality.

Author : Kurt Eisen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474238427

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The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill by Kurt Eisen Pdf

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018 The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays-The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Desire Under the Elms-besides numerous other full length and one act dramas. Eugene O'Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O'Neill's theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past. Kurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. The volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141186704

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Early Plays by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

This volume brings to readers a selection of Eugene O'Neill's early work, written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. Included here are: seven one-act plays, The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, Ile, Where the Cross Is Made, and The Rope; and five full-length plays, Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. The majority of the plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism-Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Included in this unique collection is the little known and highly autobiographical play, The Straw, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.

Author : Jaya Kapoor
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781543706888

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The Dramatic Journey of Eugene O’Neill and Samuel Beckett by Jaya Kapoor Pdf

The moderns found these two writers to be one of them, and the post moderns said their essence was post-modern. They were found to have deep existential core and humanism was the defining spirit of their works. When a writer writes with deep empathy for the human situation, the work is freed from the traps of ideologies and techniques. It reaches out to people beyond time and space. Truth is complex and individual in manifestation but simple and universal in essence. This simplicity is the most difficult to achieve and most prized achievement of an artist. This simplicity of the communication is what the journey of O’Neill and Beckett has been all about. Their journey is marked by unsparing effort to give a universal metaphor to an immensely subjective experience. The voices of two of the greatest dramatists come together to tell not just what drama has been all about in the 20th Century, but also what it is in our own day. It looks not just into the plots or characters to understand their works but also how they communicated so much more through the way they visualized the technical aspects and theatrical impact of their plays.

Author : Stephen A. Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300093993

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Eugene O'Neill by Stephen A. Black Pdf

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 : Horst Frenz,Susan Tuck
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015008980982

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Eugene O'Neill's Critics by Horst Frenz,Susan Tuck Pdf

O'Neill's plays have been translated into practically all major languages and have received remarkable performances in many countries. His impact has been such that since 1922, according to Tuck, "there has been an outpouring of opin­ions about the man, his experimental work, his universal qualities, his philo­sophical probings, his language, his dra­matic method, and his forerunners in the theater, American as well as foreign." As these 30essays indicate, O'Neill was truly an international figure, stirring comment from all parts of the world. O'Neill's stock rose considerably in 1936 when he received the Nobel Prize. His selection was applauded in Scan­dinavia as it confirmed the opinions of his work held in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. The Nobel Prize also caused the critics of France to reevaluate his work, this time much more favorably. Sum­ming up, Tuck notes that the "articles in this anthology reflect genuine attempts to present O'Neill as faithfully as pos­sible throughout the world. O'Neill's plays are not," she observes, "for any one time or any one place, as indicated by the years the essays span (1922-80)and the number of countries they represent [17in all]."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490628

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Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama by Anonim Pdf