Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays : new critical perspectives /

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Other Authors: Bennett, Michael Y., 1980-, Carson, Benjamin D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • The playwright's theatre: O'Neill's use of the Provincetown Players as laboratory / Jeff Kennedy
  • Rethinking O'Neill's beginnings: slumming, sociology, and sensationalism in The web / J. Chris Westgate
  • Eugene O'Neill's Abortion and standard family roles: the economics of terminating a romance and a pregnancy / Lesley Broder
  • The movie man: the failure of aesthetics? / Thierry Dubost
  • "God stiffen us ...": queering O'Neill's sea plays / Phillip Barnhart
  • Epistemological crises in O'Neill's SS Glencairn plays / Michael Y. Bennett
  • "The curtain is lowered": self-revelation and the problem of form in Exorcism / Kurt Eisen
  • "Ain't nothin' dere but de trees!": ghosts and the forest in The Emperor Jones / Paul D. Streufert
  • Neither fallen angel nor risen ape: desentimentalizing Robert Smith / Thomas F. Connolly
  • Waiting for O'Neill: the makings of an existentialist / Steven F. Bloom
  • O'Neill's Hughie: the sea plays revisited / Robert Combs
  • Condensed comedy: the neo-futurists perform O'Neill's stage directions / Zander Brietzke.