Eugene O'Neill, one of America's first and leading tragic dramatists, is best known for his plays "The Iceman Cometh", "Desire Under the Elms", and "Long Day's Journey into Night". O'Neill's art for anguish won him four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel...
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Eugene O'Neill, one of America's first and leading tragic dramatists, is best known for his plays "The Iceman Cometh", "Desire Under the Elms", and "Long Day's Journey into Night". O'Neill's art for anguish won him four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a place as one of the most important writers in American history. Enhanced by a detailed chronology and bibliography, this newly updated volume in the "Bloom's Modern Critical Views" series is an in-depth exploration into the life and works of a playwright whose searing dramas continu
Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; The Iceman Cometh and Hughie; Mourning Becomes Electra; Melodrama, Novelization, and the Modern Stage; Long Day's Journey into Night; From Trial to Triumph (1913-1924); The Middle Plays; Feminism versus Fatalism; Masks and Mirrors; O'Neill; Eugene O'Neill in Buenos Aires; "Vital Contact": Eugene O'Neill and the Working Class; Bound East for Cardiff; The Epitaph; Chronology; Contributors; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index;
