Eugene O'Neill and his eleven-play cycle
Subtitle: "a tale of possessors self-dispossessed"
By: Donald C. Gallup.
Contributors: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
Series: Henry McBride series in modernism and modernity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Cycles (Literature)
Other titles: Tale of possessors self-dispossessed
Description: "From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O'Neill devoted nearly all of his creative energy to a vast cycle of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations.

In showing the corrupting influence of material things upon its members, O'Neill would provide "a prophetic epitome for the course of American destiny." Quoting extensively from unpublished notes, outlines, scenarios, and drafts, and incorporating detailed plot summaries, this book tells for the first time the complicated story of the cycle project. It shows what the dramatist tried to do, how he went about it, and why in the end he failed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-294) and index.
Includes extensive summaries of the plots of individual plays.