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A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six
produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer
Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor,
appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of
prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere
productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician
(a drummer in three rock bands); a horseman; and a plain-spoken
intellectual. The famously private Shepard gave a significant
number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the
interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be generous
with his time and forthcoming on a wide range of topics. The
selected interviews in Conversations with Sam Shepard begin in 1969
when Shepard, already a multiple Obie winner, was twenty-six and
end in 2016, eighteen months before his death from complications of
ALS at age seventy-three. In the interim, the voice, the writer,
and the man evolved, but there are themes that echo throughout
these conversations: the indelibility of family; his respect for
stage acting versus what he saw as far easier film acting; and the
importance of music to his work. He also speaks candidly of his
youth in California, his early days as a playwright in New York
City, his professionally formative time in London, his interests
and influences, the mythology of the American Dream, his own plays,
and more. In Conversations with Sam Shepard, the playwright reveals
himself in his own words.
A major new biography of Eugene O'Neill, the Nobel Prize-winning
dramatist who revolutionized American theater"Restores balance to
the slightly skewed twenty-first century reputation of America's
greatest playwright. . . . [An] important story, perceptively
recounted."-Wendy Smith, Washington Post Finalist for the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize This extraordinary new biography fully
captures the intimacies of Eugene O'Neill's tumultuous life and the
profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling
innovatively recounts O'Neill's life in four acts, thus
highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with
his actual life stories. Each episode also uncovers how O'Neill's
work was utterly intertwined with, and galvanized by, the culture
and history of his time. Much is new in this extensively researched
book: connections between O'Neill's plays and his political and
philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish upbringing and
lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in
African American cultural history; unpublished photographs,
including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise
Bryant; new evidence of O'Neill's desire to become a novelist and
what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling
revelation about the release of Long Day's Journey Into Night in
defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is also the
first to discuss O'Neill's lost play Exorcism (a single copy of
which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own
suicide attempt. Written with lively informality yet a scholar's
strict accuracy, Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography
that America's foremost playwright richly deserves.
A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six
produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer
Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor,
appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of
prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere
productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician
(a drummer in three rock bands); a horseman; and a plain-spoken
intellectual. The famously private Shepard gave a significant
number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the
interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be generous
with his time and forthcoming on a wide range of topics. The
selected interviews in Conversations with Sam Shepard begin in 1969
when Shepard, already a multiple Obie winner, was twenty-six and
end in 2016, eighteen months before his death from complications of
ALS at age seventy-three. In the interim, the voice, the writer,
and the man evolved, but there are themes that echo throughout
these conversations: the indelibility of family; his respect for
stage acting versus what he saw as far easier film acting; and the
importance of music to his work. He also speaks candidly of his
youth in California, his early days as a playwright in New York
City, his professionally formative time in London, his interests
and influences, the mythology of the American Dream, his own plays,
and more. In Conversations with Sam Shepard, the playwright reveals
himself in his own words.
Eugene O'Neill is widely considered the greatest American
dramatist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, O'Neill also
received four Pulitzer Prizes over the course of his remarkable
career. ""Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill"" explores the
personal, historical, and artistic influences that combined to form
such dark and influential American masterpieces as ""The Iceman
Cometh"", ""The Emperor Jones"", ""Mourning Becomes Electra"",
""Hughie"", and - arguably the finest tragedy ever written by an
American - ""Long Day's Journey into Night"". Ideal for high school
and college-level students, this new book covers all of O'Neill's
works, as well as detailed entries on his life and related people,
places, and topics. The entries include: synopses and critical
assessments of all of O'Neill's plays; descriptions of O'Neill's
characters; discussions of people, places and topics important to
O'Neill's life and work, including alcoholism, Greenwich Village,
Paul Robeson, the labor movement, and more; and, appendixes,
including a chronology, bibliographies of primary and secondary
sources, and more.
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