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Eugene O'Neill was one of the great American playwrights of the twentieth century. Spanning the years 1910-1930, the 14 essays in this volume address the milieu he knew best--his friends in bohemian Greenwich Village, Provincetown, on waterfronts around the globe, and in the other beloved communities that comprised his early circle. At a time when O'Neill's creative powers were in their infancy, these influences formed the backdrop of his creative development and, consequently, demand more intensive study than they have received to date. This collection also highlights the larger modernist period and its impact on the First World War, the Little Theater Movement, the Abbey Players of Dublin, philosophical anarchism, and other contemporary upheavals that permeate his drama. Interspersed with rare period photos and illustrations, this volume contextualizes O'Neill's plays in the tumult of his historical and cultural moment, offering scholars a fresh approach to his life and art.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Eileen J. Herrmann and Robert M. Dowling)
"Vital Contact": O'Neill and the Working Class (Patrick Chura)
The Maritime Roots of O'Neill's Radicalism (Robert A. Richter)
1912 delete(Cynthia McCown)
J.M. Synge and the Abbey Theatre's Leftist Influence on O'Neill (Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel)
"You Are the Irish Kitchen Maid, Are You Not?": Young O'Neill, an Irish Radical? (Thierry Dubost)
"A Lot of Crazy Socialists and Anarchists": O'Neill and the Artist Social Problem Play delete (Drew Eisenhauer)
Hugo of The Iceman Cometh: Realism and O'Neill (Doris Alexander)
"You Needn't Be Scared of Me!": Joe Mott and the Politics of Isolation and Interdependence in The Iceman Cometh (Donald P. Gagnon)
Probing Legends in Bohemia: The Symbiotic Dance Between O'Neill and the Provincetown Players (Jeff Kennedy)
The Reel O'Neill in Reds (Zander Brietzke)
Saints and Hounds: Modernism's Pursuit of Dorothy Day and O'Neill (Eileen J. Herrmann)
"What Made You Leave the Movement?": O'Neill, Mike Gold, and the Radicalism of the Provincetown Players (David Roessel)
O'Neill and Paul Robeson: Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Joseph Dorinson)
On O'Neill's "Philosophical Anarchism" (Robert M. Dowling)
Appendix: Selected Chronology 1888-1928
About the Contributors
Index
