The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'NeillMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 29/03/2001 - 277 páginas Critic Clive Barnes once called Eugene O'Neill the "world's worst great playwright" and Brooks Atkinson called him "a tragic dramatist with a great knack for old-fashioned melodrama." These descriptions of the man can also be used to describe his work. Despite the fact that O'Neill is the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and his last works are some of America's finest, most of his published works are not good. This work closely examines how O'Neill's failures as a playwright are inspiring and how his disappointments are reflections of his own theory that tragedy requires failure, a theory that is evident in his work. Conflicts in O'Neill's plays are studied at the structural level, with attention paid to genre, language or dialogue, characters, space and time elements, and action. Included is information about O'Neill's life and a chronological listing of all of his 50 plays with basic details such as production history, principal characters, dramatic action, and a brief commentary. |
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... drama , in its most profound sense , stages a battle between showing and telling . The former is the tendency of the drama ; the latter is the function of narrative . Narrative needs , according to Scholes and Kellogg , “ a teller and a ...
... dramatic means , as Normand Berlin explains : " O'Neill wanted drama to do what the novel did ; the novel had a flexi- bility that O'Neill wished to claim for the drama . Simply stated , O'Neill wanted drama to do more , the more that ...
... drama and the theatre . From France , to which he had fled with Carlotta in 1928 , he wrote : " I certainly admit ... drama in ! For a speech that is dramatic and isn't just conversation ! I'm so strait - jacketed by writing in terms of ...
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Writing a Novel Drama | 27 |
Masks and Mirrors | 59 |
Beyond the Proscenium | 93 |
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