Eugene O''Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics

During a conversation with Ward Morehouse in 1930, Eugene ONeill stated, Im interested in trying to do better things, and his plays are a testimony to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. Analyzing a range of ONeills plays, this book explores the Nobel Prize winners attempts at creating a new Modern playparticularly through his staging of alienation, depictions of kissing and fighting bodies, unusual uses of acoustics, and the creation of tragedy through the chorus, silence or immobility. See more