Eugene O'Neill
Subtitle: beyond mourning and tragedy
By: Stephen A. Black.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
Subjects: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 -- Psychology.; O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 -- Mental health.; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Psychology.; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.; Drama -- Psychological aspects.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Stephen Black presents a new understanding of Eugene O'Neill's life (1888-1953), from his troubled childhood and adolescence through a glacially slow period of mourning for his family to his ultimate emergence from the preoccupation with grief and loss that had pervaded his life and his writings.

Black argues that O'Neill consciously and deliberately used playwriting as a medium of self-psychoanalysis - an endeavor that led to the creation of some of the finest American plays ever written and, eventually, to a successful therapeutic outcome."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-517) and index.