Eugene O'Neill : a life in four acts

✍ Scribed by Dowling, Robert M.; O'Neill, Eugene

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 569
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A major new biography of the Nobel Prize–winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Prologue: The Irish luck kid, 1916 --
Introduction: "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" --
Postscript: Journey into light --
Appendix. Selected chronology of works (date completed).

✦ Subjects

O'Neill, Eugene, -- 1888-1953. Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. Dramatists, American.