Eugene O'Neill
A Life in Four Acts
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Irish luck kid -- "Life is a tragedy-- hurrah!" -- 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 -- "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 -- "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-- what? -- 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" -- Journey into light -- Appendix. Selected chronology of works (date completed).
Subjects:
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.
ISBN:
9780300170337 (hardback)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY O'Neill, Eugene | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.