Experimental O'Neill. Eugene O'Neill

      

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      ePub ISBN: 978-1-940207-87-2

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

      Names: Mitchell, Rick (Richard W.), editor. O’Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953, author.

      Title: Experimental O’Neill , The Wooster Group, The Hairy Ape, the S. S. Glencairn : one-act plays, and other journeys into the world of Eugene O’Neill / edited by Rick Mitchell.

      Description: Includes bibliography | First Trade Paperback Original Edition | A Barnacle Book | Los Angeles [California], New York [New York]: Rare Bird Books, 2016.

      Identifiers: ISBN 978-0-9887456-9-8

      Subjects: LCSH O’Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 | American drama—20th century. | BISAC DRAMA / American / General.

      Classification: LCC PS3529.N5 A6 2016 | DDC 812/.52—dc23

      Contents

       Preface

       Chapter 1: Introduction

       Experimentation, The Wooster Group, and Early O’Neill

       Rick Mitchell

       Chapter 2

       Caribbean Interrogations of The Emperor Jones

       Lowell Fiet

       Chapter 3

       The Emperor Jones

       A Play by Eugene O’Neill

       Chapter 4

       “Croak Wit Your Boots On!”: The Arrested Dialectic of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape

       Anthony Dawahare

       Chapter 5

       Terror and The Hairy Ape

       Richard Murphet

       Chapter 6

       The Hairy Ape: A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life

       A Play in Eight Scenes by Eugene O’Neill

       Chapter 7

       Kate Valk on Performing O’Neill with the Wooster Group: An Interview

       Rick Mitchell

       Chapter 8

       Revising and Reviving The S. S. Glencairn: Richard Maxwell’s (Re)Evaluation of Language in O’Neill’s Early Plays

       Les Hunter

       Chapter 9

       S. S. Glencairn Plays

       Eugene O’Neill

       The Moon of the Caribbees

       A Play by Eugene O’Neill

       Bound East for Cardiff

       A Play by Eugene O’Neill

       The Long Voyage Home

       A Play by Eugene O’Neill

       In The Zone

       A Play by Eugene O’Neill

       Chapter 10

       The First World War in Europe and in America: A Gendered Reading of Antiwar Plays by the Provincetown Players

       Noelia Hernando-Real

       Chapter 11

       The Game: A Morality Play In One Act

       Louise Bryant

       Chapter 12

       Aria da Capo

       A Play in One Act by Edna St. Vincent Millay

       Contributors

       Acknowledgments

      Preface

      A century after Eugene O’Neill’s first produced play, Bound East for Cardiff, was put up by the Provincetown Players in 1916 in a converted fish house at the end of a wooden wharf in Provincetown Harbor, it is time to reassess