Eugene O'Neill : a life in four acts / Robert M. Dowling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowling, Robert M., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.

O'Neill, Eugene.

Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.

Dramatists, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Irish luck kid

"Life is a tragedy

hurrah!"

The ghosts at the stage door. The treasures of Monte Cristo ; School days of an apostate ; Anarchist in the tropics ; Exorcism in New York ; Return to Monte Cristo ; The (love) sick apprentice ; It takes a village

"To be an artist or nothing." Washed ashore at land's end ; Below Washington Square ; "Turn back the universe" ; "The town is yours" ; Civilization unmasked ; The theatre F(r)eud

"The Broadway show shop." Prometheus unbound ; Draining bitter cups ; Note to the Ku Klux Klan ; "God's hard, not easy" ; The novelist behind the mask "Old Doc" at Loon Lodge ; The soliloquy is dead! Long live

what?

Full fathom five. Uncharted seas ; L'Aeschylus du Plessis ; The Prodigal returns ; "The game isn't worth the candle" ; Pandora's box ; The tyranny of time ; silence's end ; "There's a lot to be said for being dead"

Journey into light

Appendix. Selected chronology of works (date completed).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300170337

0300170335

OCLC:

875644418