Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9004490620
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0300190182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKdivEugene 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
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
Author: Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0199731497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
The O'Neill
Author: Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0300195575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"At the O'Neill, we were all engaged with full-hearted passion in sometimes the silliest of exercises, and all in service of finding that wiggly, elusive creature, a new play."—Meryl Streep "I would not be who or where I am today without the O'Neill."—Michael Douglas As the old ways of the commercial theater were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, and Christopher Durang) and developing works that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards. Along the way, it collaborated with then-unknown performers (like Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, Courtney Vance, and Angela Bassett) and inspired Robert Redford in his creation of the Sundance Institute. This is the story of a theatrical laboratory, a place that transformed American theater, film, and television.
George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism
Author: Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780838637807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Ah! Wilderness
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781854591371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. This edition includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
Intertextuality in American Drama
Author: Drew Eisenhauer
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-12-10
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0786463910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
American Drama, 1940-1960
Author: Thomas P. Adler
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The 1940s and 1950s indisputably compose the classic period of American drama, witnessing the first productions of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thomas P. Adler tells the story of these remarkable years largely through its dominant voices: Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, and Tennessee Williams. One chapter - in Williams's case two - is devoted to each, and through careful analysis of the work of one playwright after another the persistent themes of the period emerge."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Desire Under the Elms
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Aegitas
Published: 2022-05-27
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 0369407644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese three plays exemplify Eugene O and Neil and s ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences and hearts.
Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama
Author: David Palmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1474276946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.
