Pub Date : 2020-09-23DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.2.0151
Richard Hayes, Kieran Cronin
ABSTRACT:While there is no doubting the autobiographical element in O'Neill's plays, and in particular Long Day's Journey Into Night, it is important to recognize that O'Neill did not draw on his and his family's life without modification. The manner in which he curated his family's history is examined here with reference to Edmond O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill's paternal grandfather. Edmond, if we are to read the play at face value, abandoned his family in answer to a summons from his ancestors and died in Ireland in mysterious circumstances, possibly by suicide. We show here that these are not the facts in the life of Edmond O'Neill and illuminate some aspects of Eugene O'Neill's approach in examining the difference between the facts and the fictional representation of them in the play.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-23DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.2.0125
Paul Menzer, Alexander Pettit
{"title":"Kit To Eugene: John Mason Brown's \"Letter\" To Eugene O'neill","authors":"Paul Menzer, Alexander Pettit","doi":"10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.2.0125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.2.0125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40218,"journal":{"name":"Eugene O Neill Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"125 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47473710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-23DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.2.0165
David Palmer
ABSTRACT:Both Eugene O'Neill and Søren Kierkegaard identify the same source of tragedy inherent in the human condition: anxiety that arises in people as they evaluate the stories they tell themselves about who they are. O'Neill presents four visions of tragedy in The Iceman Cometh, each involving a crisis of the self. All four are understood more clearly by considering Kierkegaard's ideas about anxiety and despair. The residents of Harry Hope's display tragedy as denial and diversion; Hickey, tragedy as a loss of self; Larry Slade, tragedy as a confrontation with one's own phoniness; and Parritt, an anguished passage through tragedy to absolution, a movement similar to Kierkegaard's teleological suspension of the ethical. Slade is the first of a series of characters O'Neill uses to explore confrontations with phoniness in his later plays. The relationship of tragedy to the teleological suspension of the ethical is explored by American dramatists following O'Neill.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0018
David Clare
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0046
B. Ezell
ABSTRACT:With his 2011 play Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz creates an afterlife of Eugene O'Neill's Tyrone family in a modern-day, mediatized performance context where film and television dominate. Baitz reimagines the Tyrones as the Wyeths, a famous Hollywood family with connections to Ronald Reagan's political circles, to illustrate how a family conditioned by performance can be exploited by political ideologies, in this case neoliberalism. Like the Tyrones, the Wyeths made their living in performance, a discipline that continues to structure their daily interactions with each other. This environment of constant performance collapses the boundary between their private lives and their sociopolitical worlds, thereby rendering their entire existence as a performance tool for furthering neoliberal goals. Baitz situates his play in the domestic dramatic tradition of Long Day's Journey Into Night to illustrate the value of theatre in exposing the artifice behind mediatized political performance.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0031
J. Minor
ABSTRACT:The Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O'Neill opened for research at Washington University in St. Louis in 2019. The collection contains fifty-five linear feet of manuscripts, photographs, playbills, posters, and other unique and rare materials by and pertinent to Eugene O'Neill, as well as roughly fifty-seven linear feet of O'Neill books, videos, and related publications. Washington University also maintains Hammerman's extensive website, eoneill.com. This article surveys the collection, by way of providing guidance to scholars who stand to benefit from working with the collection.
{"title":"Introducing the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O'neill at Washington University","authors":"J. Minor","doi":"10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O'Neill opened for research at Washington University in St. Louis in 2019. The collection contains fifty-five linear feet of manuscripts, photographs, playbills, posters, and other unique and rare materials by and pertinent to Eugene O'Neill, as well as roughly fifty-seven linear feet of O'Neill books, videos, and related publications. Washington University also maintains Hammerman's extensive website, eoneill.com. This article surveys the collection, by way of providing guidance to scholars who stand to benefit from working with the collection.","PeriodicalId":40218,"journal":{"name":"Eugene O Neill Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"31 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46574198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0069
Krista Hill, Josh R. Stillwagon, J. Tosti-Kharas, Vikki L. Rodgers, Beth Wynstra
{"title":"Teaching Beyond the Horizon: Transdisciplinary Approaches","authors":"Krista Hill, Josh R. Stillwagon, J. Tosti-Kharas, Vikki L. Rodgers, Beth Wynstra","doi":"10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40218,"journal":{"name":"Eugene O Neill Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"69 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45627502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0119
Steven F. Bloom
{"title":"\"By Way of Obit\": Kurt Eisen (1958–2019)","authors":"Steven F. Bloom","doi":"10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40218,"journal":{"name":"Eugene O Neill Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"119 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47044118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0001
Danielle B Wetmore
{"title":"Portia Wetmore, Eugene O'neill: A Moment in Time, a Toss in the Bushes","authors":"Danielle B Wetmore","doi":"10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/eugeoneirevi.41.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40218,"journal":{"name":"Eugene O Neill Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44410719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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