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Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

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Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

(Limelight). "...essential to any understanding of...O'Neill if only because they demystify him." Arthur Miller, The New York Times Book Review

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620

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879101814

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9780879101817

Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

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Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

This collection of thirty years of interviews with America's only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing. A profoundly private individual, O'Neill struggled throughout his life to overcome his intense discomfort with oral discourse as he responded to the probings of interviewers wishing him to discuss a wide range of social, political, literary, and theatrical issues. Collected in their entirety for the first time, these interviews begin in 1920, when O'Neill was thirty-two. Serious American drama, for many, began and, for many others, ended with Eugene O'Neill. This collection lends new testimony to the truth of that assertion.

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284

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878054472

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9780878054473

Four Plays By Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

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Four Plays By Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first American dramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his plays with rich characterization and innovative language, taking the outcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympian struggles with themselves-and with destiny.

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237

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Penguin

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110107616X

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9781101076163

Recklessness, and Fog

By: Eugene O'Neill

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Recklessness, and Fog

By: Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobelprize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behaviour, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one comedy Ah, Wilderness!, all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), The First Man (1922), and The Hairy Ape (1922). In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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1409915573

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9781409915577

Contour in Time

The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

By: Travis Bogard

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Contour in Time

The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

By: Travis Bogard

This study attempts to trace Eugene O'Neill's theatrical contour from its origin to its end, by discussing each of his works in the approximate chronological order of composition. The book is thus a form of biography, although it pays no heed to those events of O'Neill's life that did not have direct bearing on his professional career. By virtue of O'Neill's central position in the drama of the modern world, this study also has become, within the limits its subject sets for it, a form of theatrical history. An appendix contains a complete factual record of important productions of O'Neill's plays. ISBN 0-19-504548-3 (pbk.): $12.95.

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530

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195053419

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9780195053418

The Unknown O'Neill

Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

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The Unknown O'Neill

Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

Gathers early plays and scenarios, as well as critical essays, short stories, and poems by the influential American playwright

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458

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Yale University Press

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0300039859

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9780300039856

A Moon For The Misbegotten

Eugene Oneill Plays

By: Eugene O'neill

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A Moon For The Misbegotten

Eugene Oneill Plays

By: Eugene O'neill

A Moon for the Misbegotten is a play by Eugene O'Neill. The play is a sequel to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, with the Jim Tyrone character as an older version of Jamie Tyrone. He began drafting the play late in 1941, set it aside after a few months and returned to it a year later, completing the text in 1943 - his final work, as his failing health made it physically impossible for him to write.The play premiered on Broadway in 1947 and has had four Broadway revivals, plus a West End engagement.

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128

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2382262141

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9782382262146

Early Plays

By: Eugene O'Neill

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Early Plays

By: Eugene O'Neill

A selection of early work—including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays—from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic Included in this volume are seven one-act plays (The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, Ile, Where the Cross Is Made, and The Rope), and five full-length plays (Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape), all written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. The majority of these plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism—Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Also included in this unique collection is the little-known and highly autobiographical play The Straw, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.

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452

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Penguin

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0141186704

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9780141186702

Desire Under the Elms

A Play in Three Parts

By: Eugene O'Neill

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Desire Under the Elms

A Play in Three Parts

By: Eugene O'Neill

Desire Under the Elms A Play in Three Parts By Eugene O'Neill The play opens at the exterior of a farmhouse in New England. It is sunset on an early summer day in 1850. Eben Cabot enters and walks to the edge of the porch. He rings a bell to call in his half brothers, Simeon and Peter, who emerge soon after Eben goes back inside. The two brothers begin to talk about gold in the west and the risk of leaving everything they have worked for here. Eben sticks his head out the window as the two brothers speculate over their father's disappearance to the west saying that he hasn't left the farm in 30 years or more. They decide they can't go west until their father dies. Eben reveals himself then by saying he prays his father is dead. With one last look at the setting sun and the promise of the west, the brothers retreat inside for supper. Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 play written by Eugene O'Neill. Like Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms signifies an attempt by O'Neill to adapt plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy to a rural New England setting. It was inspired by the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. A film version was produced in 1958, and there is an operatic setting by Edward Thomas.

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