Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays
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Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays

New Critical Perspectives

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays

New Critical Perspectives

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780230339811
eBook ISBN
9781137043931
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Performing Arts
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives
  3. Contents
  4. Essay Abstracts
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER 1: The Playwright’s Theatre: O’Neill’s Use of the Provincetown Players as a One-Act Laboratory
  7. CHAPTER 2: Rethinking O’Neill’s Beginnings: Slumming, Sociology, and Sensationalism IN THE WEB
  8. CHAPTER 3: Eugene O’Neill’s Abortion and Standard Family Roles: The Economics of Terminating a Romance and a Pregnancy
  9. CHAPTER 4: The Movie Man: The Failure of Aesthetics?
  10. CHAPTER 5: “God Stiffen Us”: Queering O’Neill’s Sea Plays
  11. CHAPTER 6: Epistemological Crises in O’Neill’s SS Glencairn Plays
  12. CHAPTER 7: “The Curtain Is Lowered”: Self-Revelation and the Problem of Form in EXORCISM
  13. CHAPTER 8: “Ain’t Nothin’ Dere but de Trees!": Ghosts and the Forest IN THE EMPEROR JONES
  14. CHAPTER 9: Neither Fallen Angel nor Risen Ape: Desentimentalizing Robert Smith
  15. CHAPTER 10: Waiting for O’Neill: The Makings of an Existentialist
  16. CHAPTER 11: O’Neill’s Hughie: The Sea Plays Revisited
  17. CHAPTER 12: Condensed Comedy: The Neo-Futurists Perform O’Neill’s Stage Directions
  18. Notes on the Authors
  19. Index
  20. 978-1-349-34235-8.pdf

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