Download or read book Reading and Interpreting the Works of Eugene O Neill written by Spring Hermann and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright Eugene O'Neill dominated American theater for the first half of the twentieth century, and inspired most of the important dramatists of its second half. This text tells the story of O'Neill's often troubled life, then ties it in with his work: complex, lengthy dramas unlike anything seen on Broadway before. The playwright's main themes, which he returned to throughout his career, are carefully detailed, as are the various styles he employed over the years. Critical analysis, excerpts from the work, and quotes from O'Neill enhance readers' understanding and appreciation for this prolific playwright.
Download or read book Eugene O Neill written by Stephen A. Black and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Eugene O Neill s Philosophy of Difficult Theatre written by Jeremy Killian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Reading and Interpreting the Works of Arthur Miller written by Amy Dunkleberger and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Miller is described by some as the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century. But to fully understand and appreciate his work, students must comprehend the political climate in which he was writing and the changes facing the world at the time. This engaging text provides readers with critical analysis of his themes, style, and language; direct quotations from Miller; and relevant biographical details. Students will learn about the world Arthur Miller was reflecting in his writing and why his works have become American classics.
Download or read book The Last Will Testament of a Very Distinguished Dog written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully presentation of O'Neill's moving elegy to his dog Silverdene Emblem O'Neill (Blemie), illustrated with 25 color photos.
Download or read book By Women Possessed written by Arthur Gelb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for their books on Eugene O’Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize–winning American playwright. This is a tour through both a magical moment in American theater and the troubled life of a genius. Not a peep show or a celebrity gossip fest, this book is a brilliant investigation of the emotional knots that ensnared one of our most important playwrights. Handsome, charming when he wanted to be: O’Neill was the flame women were drawn to—all, that is, except his mother, who never let him forget he was unwanted. By Women Possessed follows O’Neill through his great successes, the failures he was able to shrug off, and the long eclipse, a twelve-year period in which, despite the Nobel, nothing he wrote was produced. But ahead lay his greatest achievements: The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into Night. Both were ahead of their time and both received lukewarm receptions. It wasn’t until after his death that his widow, the keeper of the flame, began a fierce and successful campaign to restore his reputation. The result is that today, just over 125 years after his birth, O’Neill is a towering presence in the theater, his work—always in performance here and abroad—still electrifying audiences. Perhaps of equal importance, he is the acknowledged father of modern American theater, the man who paved the way for the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and a host of others. But, as Williams has said, at a cost: “O’Neill gave birth to the American theater and died for it.”
Download or read book The Great God Brown written by Eugene O'Neill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Long Day s Journey Into Night written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book A Touch of the Poet written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Eugene O Neill s One Act Plays written by M. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O'Neill, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner, is widely known for his full length plays. However, his one-act plays are the foundation of his work - both thematically and stylistically, they telescope his later plays. This collection aims to fill the gap by examining these texts, during what can be considered O'Neill's formative writing years, and the foundational period of American drama. A wide-ranging investigation into O'Neill's one-acts, the contributors shed light on a less-explored part of his career and assist scholars in understanding O'Neill's entire oeuvre.
Download or read book Ah Wilderness written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Neill's comedy Ah, Wilderness! premiered on Broadway on 2 October 1933.
Download or read book O Neill s Shakespeare written by Normand Berlin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals unexplored links between Shakespeare's plays and the work of Eugene O'Neill
Download or read book O Neill in an Hour written by James Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O'Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium. There, O'Neill pondered his recent suicide attempt and his family's struggles with alcohol and drugs. It was there, too, that he decided to be a playwright after spending his days reading great works of literature and drama. Years later, looking back, he wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night, a play that he would complete at the very end of his career.Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of O'Neill and the plays he wrote. Read O'Neill in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!The book features:- O¿Neill in an Hour, the main essay of the book- O¿Neill In a Minute, a snapshot chronology- A complete listing of O¿Neill¿s work- A list of O¿Neill¿s contemporaries in all fields- Excerpts from O¿Neill¿s significant works- An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader- An index of the main essay.Playwrights in an Hour is a series devoted to the most produced and studied playwrights in the English language, from the Greek masters to contemporary writers, and written by leading authorities in the field. Each short book places the playwright and his or her work in historical, social, and literary context.James Fisher, professor of theatre and head of the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has authored several books, including Understanding Tony Kushner, The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater: Modernism (co-authored with Felicia Hardison Londré), The Theater of Tony Kushner. Living Past Hope, Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography, Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography, Al Jolson: A Bio-Bibliography, and The Theatre of Yesterday and Tomorrow: Commedia dell¿Arte on the Modern Stage. He has edited ¿We Will Be Citizens¿: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theater, six volumes of The Puppetry Yearbook, and Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays. He is also a director and actor, author of two plays (The Bogus Bride and The Braggart Soldier, freely adapted from Plautus¿s Miles Gloriosus ), and served as book review editor for both the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and Broadside, the publication of the Theatre Library Association. Fisher was McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar at Wabash College in 1987¿1988 and 1999¿2000, where he taught for twenty-nine years, and was named ¿Theatre Person of the Year¿ by the Indiana Theatre Association in 1997. In 2007, Fisher received the Betty Jean Jones Award for Excellence in the Teaching of American Theatre from the American Theatre and Drama Society.
Download or read book Conversations with Eugene O Neill written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Student Companion to Eugene O Neill written by Steven F. Bloom Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O'Neill is the only American dramatist ever to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote over 50 plays; a number are virtually unknown by the general public; several are considered classics of the American stage; all of them demonstrate, in one way or another, how O'Neill challenged the conventional boundaries of the drama of his time and thereby paved the way for modern American theatre. This volume will provide guides to eight of O'Neill's plays that are most often studied in schools and colleges: The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, Desire Under the Elms, Ah, Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. More than almost any other author in any fictional genre, O'Neill's works are highly autobiographical. The love/hate relationships he had with the members of his own family resonate throughout his dramatic works. The son of an alcoholic and a morphine addict, he struggled with chemical dependency throughout his life, but determined to be an artist or nothing, he eventually gave up drinking and fulfilled his artistic ambitions, transforming the traumatic experiences of his life into compelling drama. O'Neill's drama provides insights into the complexities of human behavior and raises questions about the forces, both external and internal, that shape human lives.
Download or read book Eugene O Neill and His Early Contemporaries written by Eileen J. Herrmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O'Neill was one of the great American playwrights of the twentieth century. Spanning the years 1910-1930, the 14 essays in this volume address the milieu he knew best--his friends in bohemian Greenwich Village, Provincetown, on waterfronts around the globe, and in the other beloved communities that comprised his early circle. At a time when O'Neill's creative powers were in their infancy, these influences formed the backdrop of his creative development and, consequently, demand more intensive study than they have received to date. This collection also highlights the larger modernist period and its impact on the First World War, the Little Theater Movement, the Abbey Players of Dublin, philosophical anarchism, and other contemporary upheavals that permeate his drama. Interspersed with rare period photos and illustrations, this volume contextualizes O'Neill's plays in the tumult of his historical and cultural moment, offering scholars a fresh approach to his life and art.
Download or read book Long Day s Journey into Night by Eugene O Neill Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Long Day’s Journey into Night with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill, a tragic drama centred on the Tyrone family: James, the patriarch full of regrets over his career choices; Mary, a drug addict who regrets her choice to marry James; and their sons Jamie and Edmund, the latter being a semi-autobiographical portrait of the playwright himself. When Edmund is diagnosed with tuberculosis, the family’s bonds begin to fracture and crumble as they are each consumed by regrets, denial and addictions of one kind or another. Eugene O’Neill is considered one of the most influential dramatists of the 20th century, and Long Day’s Journey into Night is one of his best-known plays. It draws heavily on his own family life as a young man, and was not published until after his death. Find out everything you need to know about Long Day’s Journey into Night in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
