Plays of Eugene ONeill (Hardcover)  | Released: 2008

The present book, The Plays of Eugene ONeill : A Critical Study, is a full-length study of Eugene ONeills major plays. ONeil, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in November 1936, has a firm belief that powerlessness, cultural-estrangement, social-isolation, self-estrangement and normlessness are the major factors which account for the realistic representation of the problems of the individual in his plays. ONeills plays are modern tragedies, striking at the very root of sickness inherent in the present day world. He claims that he has studied man not in relation to man, but man in relation to God.Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Early Phase (1) Beyond the Horizon (1918) (2) The Emperor Jones (1920) (3) The Hairy Ape (1921) (4) All God's Chillun Got Wings (1923) 3. The Middle Phase (1) Desire Under the Elms (1924) (2) The Great God Brown (1925) (3) Strange Interlude (1927) (4) Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) 4. The Later Phase (1) The Iceman Cometh (1939) (2) Long Day's Journey into Night (1941) (3) A Touch of The Poet (1942) (4) A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943) 5. Conclusion Select Bibliography