Verfasst von:	Dowling, Robert M.
Titel:	Eugene O'Neill
Titelzusatz:	a life in four acts
Verf.angabe:	Robert M. Dowling
Verlagsort:	New Haven [u.a.]
Verlag:	Yale University Press
Jahr:	2014
Umfang:	XI, 569 S.
Illustrationen:	Ill.
ISBN:	0-300-17033-5
	978-0-300-17033-7
Abstract:	The Irish luck kid, 1916 -- "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). "A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher
Schlagwörter:	(p)O'Neill, Eugene    / (f)Biographie
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	HU 4635
K10plus-PPN:	78993440X