A major new biography of the Nobel Prizeâwinning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
This extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene OâNeillâs tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts OâNeillâs life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories. Each episode also uncovers how OâNeillâs work was utterly intertwined with, and galvanized by, the culture and history of his time.
Much is new in this extensively researched book: connections between OâNeillâs plays and his political and philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of OâNeillâs desire to become a novelist and what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling revelation about the release of Long Dayâs Journey Into Night in defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is also the first to discuss OâNeillâs lost play Exorcism (a single copy of which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own suicide attempt.
Written with lively informality yet a scholarâs strict accuracy, Eugene OâNeill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography that Americaâs foremost playwright richly deserves.
Categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Community & Culture
- Black & African American
- Community & Culture
Publisher : Yale University Press
Author : Dowling, Robert M.
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2016-03-22
Number Of Pages : 584
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0300219717
ISBN-13 : 9780300219715
Item weight : 1.67 lb
Dimensions : 1.22 in x 5.79 in x 8.94 in
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