Eugene O'Neill’s Century: Centennial Views on America’s Foremost Tragic Dramatist

This collection commemorating the centennial of American playwright Eugene O'Neill’s birth presents a spectrum of critical views. Contributors from such diverse fields as psychology, english literature, Germanic studies, philosophy, the classics, and theatre arts offer fresh perspectives on and interpretations of America’s one indisputable world dramatist. Following editor Richard F. Moorton Jr.‘s introduction, which considers critical problems in O'Neill scholarship, the work is organized into three sections devoted to the nature of O'Neill, psychoanalytic and feminist interpretations of the plays, O'Neill in translation, and a look at the playwright from an actor’s perspective. An essay on O'Neill and film contains an appendix of television adaptations of the playwright’s work.