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The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill

American Modernism on the World Stage
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
256 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Academicerschienen am30.05.2019
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays-The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day´s Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Desire Under the Elms-besides numerous other full length and one act dramas.Eugene O´Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O´Neill´s theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past.Kurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. The volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.mehr
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KlappentextNamed a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays-The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day´s Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Desire Under the Elms-besides numerous other full length and one act dramas.Eugene O´Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O´Neill´s theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past.Kurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. The volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-350-11249-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum30.05.2019
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 137 mm, Höhe 226 mm, Dicke 15 mm
Gewicht340 g
Artikel-Nr.50867989
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GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceOverview, Acknowledgments1. O´Neill´s American Theatre: Modernism Against Modernity2. A Modernist in the Making: O´Neill´s Early PlaysEarly works, The Glencairn plays, Ile, Where the Cross is Made, Exorcism3. Tragedy and the Post-Revolutionary ConditionThe Personal Equation, The Hairy Ape, Lazarus Laughed, The Hairy Ape, Days Without End, More Stately Mansions, The Iceman Cometh4. New Women, Male Destinies: The Woman Plays Now I Ask You, The Straw, Diff´rent, Welded, Anna Christie , Strange Interlude, Dynamo, A Moon for the Misbegotten5. Souls under Skins : Masks, Race, and the Divided American SelfThe Dreamy Kid, The Emperor Jones, All God´s Chillun Got Wings, The Fountain, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, A Touch of the Poet6. Transience and Tradition: O´Neill´s Modern FamiliesThe Rope, Beyond the Horizon, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, Long Day´s Journey Into Night, Hughie7. Critical and Performance Perspectives: O´Neill´s Emperor Jones: Racing The Great White Way, by Katie N. Johnson (Miami University of Ohio, USA) O´Neill : Biography, Autobiography, and Standing in for Eugene (G.) O´Neill, by William Davies King (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)Tony Kushner´s O´Neill: Seeking Meaning on Marblehead Neck, by Sheila Hickey Garvey (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)The Literary O´Neill, by Alexander Pettit (University of North Texas, USA)8. O´Neill After O´NeillChronologyEndnotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndexmehr

Autor

Kurt Eisen is professor of English and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tennessee Tech University, USA, where he teaches courses in world literature and drama. He is the author of The Inner Strength of Opposites: O'Neill's Novelistic Drama and the Melodramatic Imagination (1994), and his work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill, and a variety of journals. He was a fellow of the National Critics Institute in 2001 and is a past president of the Eugene O'Neill Society.
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