About This Volume / Steven F. Bloom -- On Eugene O'Neill / Steven F. Bloom -- Biography of Eugene O'Neill / Trevor M. Wise -- Playwright of the Modern World: Eugene O'Neill in Context / Jeff Kennedy -- The Critical Reception of the Works of Eugene O'Neill / Richard Eaton and Madeline Smith -- A Rhetorical Approach to O'Neill's Early Wife Characters / Beth Wynstra -- O'Neill and the Lost Generation: O'Neill's Strange Interlude and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms / Brenda Murphy -- "A dense fog lies heavily upon the still sea": O'Neill's Sense of Place / Robert A. Richter -- Eugene O'Neill's Tryst with the Power of Blackness / Rupendra Guha-Majumdar -- Understanding Tragedy in Five O'Neill Plays / Daniel Larner -- The Impossible Representation of an Ideal America in Ah, Wilderness! / Aurélie Sanchez -- O'Neill's Choric Designs in The Iceman Cometh / Thierry Dubost -- Composing Memory in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night / Bette Mandl -- Family Dynamics in O'Neill's Drama: The Diseased Body in Long Day's Journey into Night / Michael Y. Bennett -- O'Neill and Autobiography / William Davies King -- O'Neill and the Nobel / Zander Brietzke -- Acting Misbegotten: The Creative Journey to O'Neill / Scott Edmiston -- The Genius of the Fog: Notes on O'Neill / Tony Kushner -- Chronology of Eugene O'Neill's Life -- Works by Eugene O'Neill -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors.
Summary
This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Eugene O'Neill. A chronology of O'Neill's life, a complete list of O'Neill's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.
