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

by Dowling, Robert M., 1970-

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Yale University Press, [2014]

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.

Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.

9780300170337 (hc.)

0300170335 (hc.)

xi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Irish luck kid -- "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).

"Captures the intimacies of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories. How O'Neill's work was utterly intertwined with, and galvanized by, the culture and history of his time. Connections between O'Neill's plays and his political and philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; new evidence of O'Neill's desire to become a novelist and what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling revelation about the release of Long Day's Journey Into Night in defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is the first to discuss O'Neill's lost play Exorcism (a single copy of which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own suicide attempt. Written with lively informality yet a scholar's strict accuracy. Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He has published extensively on Eugene O'Neill and serves on the editorial board of The Eugene O'Neill Review"--Provided by publisher.

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