Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill - Couverture souple

Bogard, Travis; O'Neill, Eugene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195045483 ISBN 13 : 9780195045482

Editeur : Oxford Univ Pr, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Bogard Travis

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Astoundingly wise and thought-provoking....Bogard's revision...belongs in public libraries, and in college and university libraries as well."--Choice

"Historians will value this book for its wealth of theatrical material....Scholars will value it for its use of original sources. Personally, I value it most for its philosophical insights and analyses."--F.I. Carpenter, American Literature

"A classic.... [The final chapter], a masterpiece of compression...draws together innumerable facets of the dramatist's life and work and shows how [A Long Day's Journey into Night] achieves an illumination through pain that may have been O'Neill's salvation."--The New York Times Book Review

"Up to this moment, there is no better book on O'Neill. A masterful and sensitive piece of criticism."--Normand Berlin, University of Massachusetts

"The fullest and finest charting of [O'Neill's] process [of self-discovery]... [It is also] a history of the American theatre in the twentieth century and contains... many interesting and original analyses of individual O'Neill plays."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Présentation de l'éditeur

Eugene O'Neill, one of America's most gifted and prolific playwrights, wrote more than 60 plays between 1914 and 1941, a level of creativity paralleled in modern times only by Bernard Shaw. The progress of his art from crude, one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his later years is a story as dramatic and compelling as that of his tortured personal history. Combining the two, Professor Bogard traces the contours of O'Neill's life in his art. By discussing, in their approximate order of composition, the published and unpublished works, Bogard illuminates not only the plays, but also the literary, aesthetic, and historical influences on the playwright's development. For the revised edition of this insightful, meticulously written work, the author has added new and unpublished material on A Tale of Possessors, Self-dispossessed, a cycle of nine plays written by O'Neill during the 1930s and '40s, only one of which he readied for the stage. Among the plays in this cycle that have been posthumously produced are More Stately Mansions (New York, 1967) and A Touch of the Poet (New York, 1958).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Univ Pr
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195045483
• ISBN 13: 9780195045482
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie