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Contour in Time : The Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Travis Bogard (1988, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195053419
ISBN-139780195053418
eBay Product ID (ePID)1264942
Product Key Features
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameContour in Time : the Plays of Eugene O'neill
SubjectDrama, American / General
Publication Year1988
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorTravis Bogard
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight36.2 Oz
Item Length6.3 in
Item Width9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN87-034860
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"A classic.... [The final chapter], a masterpiece of compression...draws together innumerable facets of the dramatist's life and work and shows how [A Long Day's Journey into Night] achieves an illumination through pain that may have been O'Neill's salvation."--The New York Times Book Review, "A classic.... [The final chapter], a masterpiece of compression...draws together innumerable facets of the dramatist's life and work and shows how [A Long Day's Journey into Night] achieves an illumination through pain that may have been O'Neill's salvation."--The New York Times Book Review"Astoundingly wise and thought-provoking....Bogard's revision...belongs in public libraries, and in college and university libraries as well."--Choice"Historians will value this book for its wealth of theatrical material....Scholars will value it for its use of original sources. Personally, I value it most for its philosophical insights and analyses."--F.I. Carpenter, American Literature"A classic.... [The final chapter], a masterpiece of compression...draws together innumerable facets of the dramatist's life and work and shows how [A Long Day's Journey into Night] achieves an illumination through pain that may have been O'Neill's salvation."--The New York Times Book Review"Up to this moment, there is no better book on O'Neill. A masterful and sensitive piece of criticism."--Normand Berlin, University of Massachusetts"The fullest and finest charting of [O'Neill's] process [of self-discovery]... [It is also] a history of the American theatre in the twentieth century and contains... many interesting and original analyses of individual O'Neill plays."--Virginia Quarterly Review
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal812/.52
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisProfessor Bogard traces the progress of O'Neills art from crude, one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his later years all in relation to the playwrights tortured personal history. The book illuminates not only the plays, but also the literary, aesthetic, and historical influences on the playwright's development., Eugene O'Neill, one of America's most gifted and prolific playwrights, wrote more than 60 plays between 1914 and 1941, a level of creativity paralleled in modern times only by Bernard Shaw. The progress of his art from crude, one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his later years is a story as dramatic and compelling as that of his tortured personal history. Combining the two, Professor Bogard traces the contours of O'Neill's life in his art. By discussing, in their approximate order of composition, the published and unpublished works, Bogard illuminates not only the plays, but also the literary, aesthetic, and historical influences on the playwright's development. For the revised edition of this insightful, meticulously written work, the author has added new and unpublished material on A Tale of Possessors, Self-dispossessed , a cycle of nine plays written by O'Neill during the 1930s and '40s, only one of which he readied for the stage. Among the plays in this cycle that have been posthumously produced are More Stately Mansions (New York, 1967) and A Touch of the Poet (New York, 1958)., Eugene O'Neill, one of America's most gifted and prolific playwrights, wrote more than 60 plays between 1914 and 1941, a level of creativity paralleled in modern times only by Bernard Shaw. The progress of his art from crude, one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his later years is a story as dramatic and compelling as that of his tortured personal history. Combining the two, Professor Bogard traces the contours of O'Neill's life in his art. By discussing, in their approximate order of composition, the published and unpublished works, Bogard illuminates not only the plays, but also the literary, aesthetic, and historical influences on the playwright's development. For the revised edition of this insightful, meticulously written work, the author has added new and unpublished material on A Tale of Possessors, Self-dispossessed, a cycle of nine plays written by O'Neill during the 1930s and '40s, only one of which he readied for the stage. Among the plays in this cycle that have been posthumously produced are More Stately Mansions (New York, 1967) and A Touch of the Poet (New York, 1958).
LC Classification NumberPS3529.N5.Z568 1988
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