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Book Strange Interlude

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play's themes -- a woman's sexual affairs, mental illness, abortion, and deception over paternity -- were very controversial for the 1920s. It was censored or banned in many cities outside New York. The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of a classics professor at a college in New England, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's mother: insanity runs in the Evans family and could be inherited by any child of Sam's. Realizing that a child is essential to her own and to Sam's happiness, Nina decides on a "scientific" solution. She will abort Sam's child and conceive a child with the physician Ned Darrell, letting Sam believe that it is his. The plan backfires when Nina and Ned's intimacy leads to their falling passionately in love. Twenty years later, Sam and Nina's son Gordon Evans is approaching manhood, with only Nina and Ned aware of the boy's true parentage. In the final act, Sam dies of a stroke without learning the truth. This leaves Nina free to marry Ned Darrell, but she declines to do so, choosing instead to marry the long-suffering Charlie Marsden, who proclaims that he now has "all the luck at last."

Book Strange Interlude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Play

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  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book A Play written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Play  Strange Interlude

Download or read book A Play Strange Interlude written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange Interlude

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  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2024-08-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude is a groundbreaking exploration of love, loss, and the complexities of the human psyche. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play delves into the inner thoughts and hidden desires of its characters, revealing the tumultuous forces that shape their lives across decades. A timeless masterpiece of American theater.

Book Strange Interlude

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  • Author : Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1942
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange Interlude   a Play

Download or read book Strange Interlude a Play written by Eoghan O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange Interlude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Desire Under the Elms

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  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-08-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O'Neill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Desire Under the Elms" is a 1924 play by Eugene O'Neill. Like some other O'Neil's plays, "Desire Under the Elms" signifies an attempt to adapt plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy to a rural New England setting. The play was inspired by the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. Both plays are driven by a love triangle between a father, a son, and a stepmother.

Book Nine Plays by Eugene O Neill

Download or read book Nine Plays by Eugene O Neill written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange Interlude

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study Guide for Eugene O Neill s  Strange Interlude

Download or read book A Study Guide for Eugene O Neill s Strange Interlude written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Book By Women Possessed

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.”

Book A Long Strange Trip

Download or read book A Long Strange Trip written by Dennis McNally and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes. Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead’s history in A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead’s early days in late-sixties San Francisco—an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey’s acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley “Bear” Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Dead’s saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation. Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the band’s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.

Book Strange Interlude

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1 pages

Download or read book Strange Interlude written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Theatre, direction A.L. Erlanger and W.H. Rapley, business management: S.E. Cochran. The Theatre Guild of New York presents "Strange Interlude," a play in nine acts by Eugene O'Neill, the production directed by Philip Moeller, associate director, Tom Powers, settings by Jo Mielziner.

Book The Plays

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  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book The Plays written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Long Day s Journey Into Night

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