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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-554) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eugene O'Neill

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

875644418

Responsibility statement

Robert M. Dowling

Sub title

a life in four acts

Summary

"A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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)

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