Eugene O'Neill
Subtitle: a life in four acts
By: Robert M. Dowling
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780300170337
Subjects: American Dramatists; Biography
Description: "A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Irish luck kid; title: "Life is a tragedy; title: hurrah!"; title: The ghosts at the stage door. The treasures of Monte Cristo ; School days of an apostate ; Anarchist in the tropics ; Exorcism in New York ; Return to Monte Cristo ; The (love) sick apprentice ; It takes a village; title: "To be an artist or nothing." Washed ashore at land's end ; Below Washington Square ; "Turn back the universe" ; "The town is yours" ; Civilization unmasked ; The theatre F(r)eud; title: "The Broadway show shop." Prometheus unbound ; Draining bitter cups ; Note to the Ku Klux Klan ; "God's hard, not easy" ; The novelist behind the mask "Old Doc" at Loon Lodge ; The soliloquy is dead! Long live; title: what?; title: Full fathom five. Uncharted seas ; L'Aeschylus du Plessis ; The Prodigal returns ; "The game isn't worth the candle" ; Pandora's box ; The tyranny of time ; silence's end ; "There's a lot to be said for being dead"; title: Journey into light; title: Appendix. Selected chronology of works (date completed).