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Book The Iceman Cometh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book The Iceman Cometh written by Eugene O'Neill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a play that revolves around a group of alcoholics who live together in a flop house above a saloon. They always discuss their dreams but never take a step toward actualizing them. This group of misfits always awaits the coming of the salesman whose name is Hickey. Hickey determines to strip them of their pipe dreams and then reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his wife.

Book Eugene O Neill s Creative Struggle

Download or read book Eugene O Neill s Creative Struggle written by Doris Alexander and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Eugene O Neill

Download or read book Eugene O Neill written by Robert M. Dowling and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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

Book Desire Under the Elms

    Book Details:
  • 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 Eugene O Neill s T  h  e     i  c  e  m  a  n     c  o  m  e  t  h

Download or read book Eugene O Neill s T h e i c e m a n c o m e t h written by Gary Vena and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illusion and Reality in Eugene O Neill s  The Iceman Cometh  and  Long Day s Journey into Night

Download or read book Illusion and Reality in Eugene O Neill s The Iceman Cometh and Long Day s Journey into Night written by Dennis Alexander Goebels and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Eugene O'Neill, language: English, abstract: The Iceman Cometh (published in 1940) and Long Day’s Journey into Night (published in 1956 after O’Neill’s death) are widely recognized to be two of Eugene O’Neill’s best plays. Both belong to his late plays and apart from that bear a lot of similarities. The focus of this paper will be to analyze The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into Night with special regard to the importance of illusion and reality for both the characters and the progress of the play. Furthermore a comparison will be made between Hickey in The Iceman Cometh and Mary Cavan Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night in order to show that they have similar functions in their respective plays. Finally a conclusion will be given which will sum up the argumentation.

Book Hughie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 1982-10
  • ISBN : 9780822205432
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Hughie written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Adventures of Ideas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred North Whitehead
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1933
  • ISBN : 0029351707
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Adventures of Ideas written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1933 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.

Book Complete Plays  1913 1920

Download or read book Complete Plays 1913 1920 written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Theatre of Eugene O   Neill

Download or read book The Theatre of Eugene O Neill written by Kurt Eisen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Unknown O Neill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300039856
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book The Unknown O Neill written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers early plays and scenarios, as well as critical essays, short stories, and poems by the influential American playwright

Book Turn of the Century

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt Andersen
  • Publisher : Delta
  • Release : 2011-03-09
  • ISBN : 0307785572
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Turn of the Century written by Kurt Andersen and published by Delta. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family, marriage, and friendship and propelled by the supercharged global businesses and new technologies that make everyone's lives shake and spin a little faster. As the year 2000 progresses, George Mactier and Lizzie Zimbalist, ten years married, are caught up in the whirl of their centrifugally accelerating lives. George is a TV producer for the upstart network MBC, launching a truly and weirdly groundbreaking new show that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Lizzie is a software entrepreneur dealing with the breakneck pleasures and pains of running her own company in an industry where the rules are rewritten daily. Rocketing between Los An-geles and Seattle, with occasional stopovers at home in Manhattan for tag-team parenting of their three children, George and Lizzie are the kind of businesspeople who, growing up in the sixties and seventies, never dreamed they would end up in business. They're too busy to spend the money that's rolling in, and too smart not to feel ambivalent about their crazed, high-gloss existences, but nothing seems to slow the roller-coaster momentum of their inter-secting lives and careers. However, after Lizzie, recovering from a Microsoft deal gone awry, becomes a confidante and adviser to George's boss, billionaire media mogul Harold Mose, the couple discovers that no amount of sophisticated spin can obscure basic instincts: envy, greed, suspicion, sexual temptation--and, maybe, love. When they and their children are finally drawn into a thrilling, high-tech corporate hoax that sends Wall Street reeling (and makes one person very, very rich), George and Lizzie can only marvel at life's oversized surprises and hold on for dear life. Like Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Kurt Andersen's Turn of the Century lays bare the follies of our age with laser-beam precision, creating memorable characters and dissecting the ways we think, speak, and navigate this new era of extreme capitalism and mind-boggling technology. Entertaining, imaginative, knowing, and wise, Turn of the Century is a richly plotted comedy of manners about the way we live now.

Book The First Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene O'Neill
  • Publisher : The Floating Press
  • Release : 2014-05-01
  • ISBN : 1776533615
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The First Man written by Eugene O'Neill and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking play from Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill takes an unflinching look at the challenges of parenting and the often primal conflicts that can fester between parents and their children. The drama unfolds during what starts out as a pleasant-enough social visit, as anthropologist Curtis Jayson and his wife Martha play host to one of Curtis' college friends.

Book Eugene O Neill s The Iceman Cometh

Download or read book Eugene O Neill s The Iceman Cometh written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of distinguished critical insights into one of O'Neill's masterpieces, Cyrus Day sees the play as a prophetic anticipation of the mass destruction of the Second World War.

Book Little Wimmin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Figs in Wigs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-17
  • ISBN : 9781913630065
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Little Wimmin written by Figs in Wigs and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figs in Wigs are back and this time they've got their period (dresses). After five years of creating avant-garde, boundary pushing, genre-bending contemporary performance, Figs in Wigs have decided the only way to go is backwards...

Book The Iceman Cometh   Eugene O Neill

Download or read book The Iceman Cometh Eugene O Neill written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an electronic version of the original edition of this;Bloom's;Modern Critical Interpretations;title, containing all the classic essays published in the first print edition.