The Cambridge companion to Eugene O'Neill /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description:xviii, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3400865
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Manheim, Michael.
Cambridge University Press.
ISBN:052155389X (hc)
0521556457 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-247) and index.
Also available on the Internet.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Chronology
  • List of plays and poems
  • Introduction Michael Manheim
  • 1. 'Celebrant of loss': Eugene ONeill 18881953
  • 2. ONeills philosophical and literary paragons
  • 3. ONeill and the theatre of his time
  • 4. From trial to triumph: the early plays
  • 5. The middle plays
  • 6. The late plays
  • 7. Notable American stage productions
  • 8. ONeill on screen
  • 9. ONeills America: the strange interlude between the wars
  • 10. ONeills African and Irish-Americans: stereotypes or faithful realism?
  • 11. ONeills female characters
  • 12. A tale of possessors self-disposessed
  • 13. Trying to write the family play: autobiography and the dramatic imagination
  • 14. The stature of Long Days Journey Into Night
  • 15. ONeill and the cult of sincerity
  • 16. ONeill criticism
  • Select bibliography of full-length works
  • Index