Eugene O''Neill Remembered
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Writers Remembered
ISBN-10
081731931X
ISBN-13
9780817319311
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
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The University of Alabama Press
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US
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GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 2016
Print length
408 Pages
Weight
780 grams
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22.80 x 15.20 x 3.50 cms
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Literary studies: plays & playwrightsLiterary studies: plays and playwrights
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Offers new views into the playwright’s life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O’Neill. The purpose of this collection is to present O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person accounts.
Eugene O’Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright’s life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O’Neill.
O'Neill is known principally as the author of some of the most significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America's Nobel Laureates in literature. However, O'Neill's life has long been shrouded in myth. O'Neill rarely gave interviews and was not forthcoming about the details of his life. He also abetted some of the misconceptions about his youth by, for example, advocating the story that he was expelled from Princeton for throwing a rock through Woodrow Wilson's window or by exaggerating the amount of time he had spent at sea. The legend of the hard-drinking, tormented playwright with a grim view of life was further reinforced when Long Day's Journey into Night was produced in 1956, three years after his death instead of the twenty-five years he had insisted on.
The portrayal of O’Neill as a tragic figure has been solidified in a number of biographies. The purpose of this collection, however, is to present O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person accounts. In the course of these reminiscences, many of the vast and various narrators conflict with and contradict each other. Unlike other accounts of O’Neill’s life, much of the focus is on impressions instead of facts. The result is a revealing composite portrait of a key figure in twentieth-century American literary history.
This extensive collection offers insights unavailable in any other book and will hold massive appeal for scholars and students interested in American literature, Eugene O’Neill, and theater history, as well as anyone keen to uncover intimate details of the life of one of America’s greatest writers.
O'Neill is known principally as the author of some of the most significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America's Nobel Laureates in literature. However, O'Neill's life has long been shrouded in myth. O'Neill rarely gave interviews and was not forthcoming about the details of his life. He also abetted some of the misconceptions about his youth by, for example, advocating the story that he was expelled from Princeton for throwing a rock through Woodrow Wilson's window or by exaggerating the amount of time he had spent at sea. The legend of the hard-drinking, tormented playwright with a grim view of life was further reinforced when Long Day's Journey into Night was produced in 1956, three years after his death instead of the twenty-five years he had insisted on.
The portrayal of O’Neill as a tragic figure has been solidified in a number of biographies. The purpose of this collection, however, is to present O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person accounts. In the course of these reminiscences, many of the vast and various narrators conflict with and contradict each other. Unlike other accounts of O’Neill’s life, much of the focus is on impressions instead of facts. The result is a revealing composite portrait of a key figure in twentieth-century American literary history.
This extensive collection offers insights unavailable in any other book and will hold massive appeal for scholars and students interested in American literature, Eugene O’Neill, and theater history, as well as anyone keen to uncover intimate details of the life of one of America’s greatest writers.
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