Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays [electronic resource] : New Critical Perspectives /
Bennett, M.editor.
Carson, B.editor.
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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COVER; Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives; Contents; Essay Abstracts; INTRODUCTION; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 1: The Playwright's Theatre: O'Neill's Use of the Provincetown Players as a One-Act Laboratory; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 2: Rethinking O'Neill's Beginnings: Slumming, Sociology, and Sensationalism IN THE WEB; A Bum Game All Around: The Misery of the Misbegotten; On the Town: The Spectacle of the Misbegotten; Conclusion: Rethinking O'Neill's Beginnings; Notes; Works Cited
CHAPTER 3: Eugene O'Neill's Abortion and Standard Family Roles: The Economics of Terminating a Romance and a PregnancyNotes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 4: The Movie Man: The Failure of Aesthetics?; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 5: "God Stiffen Us": Queering O'Neill's Sea Plays; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 6: Epistemological Crises in O'Neill's SS Glencairn Plays; The Situation aboard the SS Glencairn; The Epistemological Crisis in the Sea Plays; The Sea Plays and the Audience: Riding the Waves between Naturalism and Realism; From Didacticism to Alienation Effect
The Narratives of Naturalism and Realism aboard the SS GlencairnConclusion I: The Characters and the Audience; Conclusion II: Three Statements on Significance; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 7: "The Curtain Is Lowered": Self-Revelation and the Problem of Form in EXORCISM; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 8: "Ain't Nothin' Dere but de Trees!"": Ghosts and the Forest IN THE EMPEROR JONES; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 9: Neither Fallen Angel nor Risen Ape: Desentimentalizing Robert Smith; Notes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 10: Waiting for O'Neill: The Makings of an Existentialist; Notes; Works Cited
CHAPTER 11: O'Neill's Hughie: The Sea Plays RevisitedNotes; Works Cited; CHAPTER 12: Condensed Comedy: The Neo-Futurists Perform O'Neill's Stage Directions; Notes; Works Cited; Notes on the Authors; Index
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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.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
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