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Eugene O'Neill Remembered (Paperback)
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Eugene O'Neill Remembered (Paperback)
Series: American Writers Remembered
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Eugene O'Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright's
life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to
him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These
sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O'Neill.
Known principally as the author of some of the most significant
plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America's Nobel
Laureates in literature, O'Neill rarely gave interviews and offered
few details about himself. As a consequence, his life has long been
shrouded in myth. He also abetted some of the misconceptions about
his youth by, for example, advocating the story that he was
expelled from Princeton for throwing a rock through Woodrow
Wilson's window or by exaggerating the amount of time he had spent
at sea. The legend of the hard-drinking, tormented playwright with
a grim view of life was further reinforced when Long Day's Journey
into Night was produced in 1956, three years after his death
instead of the twenty-five years he had insisted on. The portrayal
of O'Neill as a tragic figure has been solidified in a number of
biographies. The purpose of this collection, however, is to present
O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person
accounts. In the course of these reminiscences, many of the vast
and various narrators conflict with and contradict each other.
Unlike other accounts of O'Neill's life, much of the focus is on
impressions instead of facts. The result is a revealing composite
portrait of a key figure in twentieth-century American literary
history. This extensive collection offers insights unavailable in
any other book and will hold massive appeal for scholars and
students interested in American literature, Eugene O'Neill, and
theater history, as well as anyone keen to uncover intimate details
of the life of one of America's greatest writers.
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