This volume of specially commissioned essays contains studies of O'Neill's life, his intellectual and creative forebears, and his relation to the theatrical world of his creative period, 1916-1942. 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. 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.
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"Manheim (Univ. of Toledo) provides an excellent overview of O'Neill's plays and adds to the great volume of critical analysis of the playwright's work." Choice
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This volume of specially commissioned essays contains studies of O'Neill's life, his intellectual and creative forbears, and his relation to the theatrical world of his creative period, 1916-1942. 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.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.
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On 2 February 1920 Eugene O'Neill saw his first major play, Beyond the Horizon, open at the Morosco. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ole davil, novelistic drama, new stagecraft, strange interlude, native eloquence, hairy ape, stately mansions, deep pity, late plays Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eugene O'Neill, New York, Long Day, The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, Mary Tyrone, Provincetown Players, More Stately Mansions, Travis Bogard, United States, The Great God Brown, Complete Plays, Touch of the Poet, Theatre Guild, All God's Chillun Got Wings, James O'Neill, Josie Hogan, New Haven, Oxford University Press, The Long Voyage Home, Nina Leeds, Robert Edmond Jones, Yale University Press New!
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On 2 February 1920 Eugene O'Neill saw his first major play, Beyond the Horizon, open at the Morosco. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ole davil, novelistic drama, new stagecraft, strange interlude, native eloquence, hairy ape, stately mansions, deep pity, late plays Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eugene O'Neill, New York, Long Day, The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, Mary Tyrone, Provincetown Players, More Stately Mansions, Travis Bogard, United States, The Great God Brown, Complete Plays, Touch of the Poet, Theatre Guild, All God's Chillun Got Wings, James O'Neill, Josie Hogan, New Haven, Oxford University Press, The Long Voyage Home, Nina Leeds, Robert Edmond Jones, Yale University Press New!
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- Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene 'Neill by Jean Chothia on 6 pages
- The Wild Duck (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen on 5 pages
- The Selected Letters by T. E. Lawrence on 5 pages
- A Kind of Alaska: A Play (from Other Places) (Acting Edition) by Harold Pinter on 4 pages
- Modern Drama: Essays in Criticism by Travis Bogard and William I. Oliver (edited by) on 4 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Wendy Martin in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by James McFarlane in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Shaun Richards in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Anne Fernihough in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Martin Priestman in Index
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