The Plays Of Eugene O Neill

Author : Travis Bogard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 9780195053418

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Contour in Time by Travis Bogard Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:9331864

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The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: Strange interlude by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doris Alexander
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041025

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Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle by Doris Alexander Pdf

In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles&—love against hate, doubt against belief, life against death&—to an ever-expanding understanding. It presents a new kind of criticism, showing how O'Neill's most intimate struggles worked their way to resolution through the drama of his plays. Alexander reveals that he was engineering his own consciousness through his plays and solving his life problems&—while the tone, imagery, and richness of the plays all came out of the nexus of memories summoned up by the urgency of the problems he faced in them. By the way of O'Neill, this study moves toward a theory of the impulse that sets off a writer's creativity, and a theory of how that impulse acts to shape a work, not only in a dramatist like O'Neill but also in the case of writers in other mediums, and even of painters and composers. The study begins with Desire Under the Elms because that play's plot was consolidated by a dream that opened up the transfixing grief that precipitated the play for O'Neill, and it ends with Days Without End when he had resolved his major emotional-philosophical struggle and created within himself the voice of his final great plays. Since the analysis brings to bear on the plays all of his conscious decisions, ideas, theories, as well as the life-and-death struggles motivating them, documenting even the final creative changes made during rehearsals, this book provides a definitive account of the nine plays analyzed in detail (Desire Under the Elms, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strange Interlude, Dynamo, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, and Days Without End, with additional analysis of plays written before and after.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004521766

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Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neill by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003955585

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Complete Plays: 1913-1920 by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

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 : Jeremy Killian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000546132

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Eugene O'Neill's Philosophy of Difficult Theatre by Jeremy Killian Pdf

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O’Neill’s vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more “rational” one among his audience members. In addition to offering a new paradigm through which to interpret O’Neill’s work, this book argues that O’Neill’s theory of tragedy is a robust account of the value of difficult theatre as a whole, with more explanatory scope and power than its cognitivist counterparts. This paradigm reshapes our understanding of live theatrical tragedy’s impact and significance for our lives. The book enters the discussion of tragic value by way of the plays of Eugene O’Neill, and through this study, Killian makes the case that O’Neill has refused to allow Plato to define the terms of tragedy’s merit, as the cognitivists have. He argues that O’Neill’s theory of tragedy is non-cognitive and locates the value of a play in its ability to trigger certain emotional responses from the audience. This would be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, literature and philosophy.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Broadway Play Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0881451819

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Plays by Eugene O'Neill by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

This collection contains Eugene O'Neill's first three full-length plays: BEYOND THE HORIZON, THE EMPEROR JONES, and ANNA CHRISTIE. BEYOND THE HORIZON: Winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "...an absorbing, significant, and memorable tragedy... ...a playwright of real power and imagination... ...the play has greatness in it and marks O'Neill as one of our foremost playwrights...." Alexander Woolcott, Times "Only once or twice in the course of the dramatic season does a playof such terrific force and such simple directness award the patient theatrical chroniclers..." Robert Gilbert Welsh, Evening Telegram "...this season's most notable play of a serious theme and purpose by an American author...." World THE EMPEROR JONES: "...for strength and originality [O'Neill] has no rivals among the American writers for the stage." Alexander Woolcott, Times "An odd and extraordinary play, written with imaginative genius..." Kenneth Macgowan, Globe "...the most interesting play which has yet come from the most promising playwright in America..." Heywood Broun, Tribune ANNA CHRISTIE: Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "...a rich and salty play that grips the attention with the rise of the first curtain and holds it fiercely to the end.... A play written with that abundant imagination, that fresh and venturesome mind and that sure instinct for the theatre which set this young author apart...." Alexander Woollcott, Times

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0394718569

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Seven Plays of the Sea by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

The action of the seven one-act plays takes place in the years preceding World War I

Author : Robert M. Dowling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : American drama
ISBN : MINN:31951D004404192

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Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1280710227

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Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

Author : Stephen A. Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.