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OverviewEugene O’Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright’s life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O’Neill. Known principally as the author of some of the most significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America’s Nobel Laureates in literature, O'Neill rarely gave interviews and offered few details about himself. As a consequence, his life has long been shrouded in myth. He also abetted some of the misconceptions about his youth by, for example, advocating the story that he was expelled from Princeton for throwing a rock through Woodrow Wilson's window or by exaggerating the amount of time he had spent at sea. The legend of the hard-drinking, tormented playwright with a grim view of life was further reinforced when Long Day's Journey into Night was produced in 1956, three years after his death instead of the twenty-five years he had insisted on. The portrayal of O’Neill as a tragic figure has been solidified in a number of biographies. The purpose of this collection, however, is to present O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person accounts. In the course of these reminiscences, many of the vast and various narrators conflict with and contradict each other. Unlike other accounts of O’Neill’s life, much of the focus is on impressions instead of facts. The result is a revealing composite portrait of a key figure in twentieth-century American literary history. This extensive collection offers insights unavailable in any other book and will hold massive appeal for scholars and students interested in American literature, Eugene O’Neill, and theater history, as well as anyone keen to uncover intimate details of the life of one of America’s greatest writers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brenda Murphy , George MonteiroPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Weight: 0.608kg ISBN: 9780817360450ISBN 10: 081736045 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 30 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology Introduction1 Part 1. New London, School, and Wandering (1888–1913) 1. George C. Tyler 2. Warren H. Hastings and Richard F. Weeks 3. Kathleen Jenkins Pitt-Smith 4. William Lee 5. Pierre Loving 6. Mabel Haynes 7. Clayton Hamilton 8. Irvin S. Cobb 9. Frederick P. Latimer 10. Arthur B. McGinley 11. Robert A. Woodworth Part 2. Cambridge, Provincetown, and Greenwich Village (1914–1917) 12. Beatrice Ashe Maher 13. John V. A. Weaver 14. Susan Glaspell 15. Mary Heaton Vorse 16. Hutchins Hapgood 17. Harry Kemp 18. Adele Nathan 19. Dorothy Day 20. William Carlos Williams Part 3. Provincetown Playhouse, Peaked Hill Bar, Ridgefield, Broadway (1918–1927) 21. Hazel Hawthorne Werner 22. Juliet Throckmorton 23. Manuel Zora 24. Edmund Wilson 25. Charles O'Brien Kennedy 26. Agnes Boulton 27. Jasper Deeter 28. Stark Young 29. Malcolm Cowley 30. Hart Crane 31. Harold De Polo 32. Brooks Atkinson 33. Calvin Hoffman Part 4. Europe, Georgia, the Theatre Guild, California (1928–1937) 34. Louis Fladger 35. John Lardner 36. Bennett Cerf 37. Lawrence Langner 38. Brooks Atkinson 39. Rouben Mamoulian 40. Theresa Helburn 41. George Jean Nathan 42. Maxine Edie Benedict Part 5. California and New York (1938–1948) 43. Carlotta Monterey O'Neill 44. Marcella Markham 45. Ingrid Bergman 46. Sean O'Casey 47. Karl Schriftgiesser 48. S. J. Woolf 49. Max Gordon 50. Herbert J. Stoeckel 51. Saxe Commins 52. Bennett Cerf 53. Paul Crabtree 54. Mary Welch Part 6. Marblehead and Boston (1948–1953) 55. Saxe Commins 56. Carlotta Monterey O'Neill 57. Bennett Cerf 58. Earle F. Johnson 59. Dr. Frederic B. Mayo 60. Sallie Coughlin 61. Russel Crouse 62. Carl Van Vechten List of Reminiscences Additional Reminiscences Biographical Sketches of Important Names Permissions Notes Works Cited IllustrationsReviews"""Monteiro and Murphy's exemplary compilation will be greeted with cheers from those of us interested in gaining new access to the playwright's elusive personality and the nature of his closest associations."" --Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts ""Adding previously unpublished memoirs to available biographical material on the playwright, the volume corrects, perhaps inadvertently, some prevailing misconceptions about O'Neill. Biographies of O'Neill abound, to be sure. What distinguishes this volume is the gathering of disparate voices of O'Neill's family members, friends, associates, and acquaintances, which vividly bring into relief the pitfalls of the single narrator's voice, be it that of the biographer or the autobiographer. Recommended."" --CHOICE ""Murphy and Monteiro have provided a timely addition to the emerging 'full' picture of Eugene O'Neill--the playwright, the artist, and the man"". --Resources for American Literary Study, 2018 ""Eugene O'Neill Remembered is a cabinet of curiosity for diverse, fragmentary evocations left by a noisy writer and a difficult man who self-consciously made literary and theatrical history in the first part of the twentieth century."" --William Davies King, author of Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton" Adding previously unpublished memoirs to available biographical material on the playwright, the volume corrects, perhaps inadvertently, some prevailing misconceptions about O'Neill. Biographies of O'Neill abound, to be sure. What distinguishes this volume is the gathering of disparate voices of O'Neill's family members, friends, associates, and acquaintances, which vividly bring into relief the pitfalls of the single narrator's voice, be it that of the biographer or the autobiographer. Recommended. --CHOICE Murphy and Monteiro have provided a timely addition to the emerging 'full' picture of Eugene O'Neill--the playwright, the artist, and the man . --Resources for American Literary Study, 2018 Eugene O'Neill Remembered is a cabinet of curiosity for diverse, fragmentary evocations left by a noisy writer and a difficult man who self-consciously made literary and theatrical history in the first part of the twentieth century. --William Davies King, author of Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton Monteiro and Murphy's exemplary compilation will be greeted with cheers from those of us interested in gaining new access to the playwright's elusive personality and the nature of his closest associations. --Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts Author InformationBrenda Murphy is professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of numerous books on twentieth-century American literature and drama, including The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity and The Theatre of Tennessee Williams. George Monteiro is professor emeritus of English and an adjunct professor emeritus of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. His books include Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage and Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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