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

Author/creator Dowling, Robert M., 1970- author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
Dramatists, American--20th century. --Biography.

Contents The Irish luck kid, 1916 -- "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).
Abstract "A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formBiography.
LCCN 2014014634
ISBN9780300170337 (hardback)
ISBN0300170335 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3529 .N5 Z6284 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold