Eugene O`Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle
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From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O`Neill devoted nearly all of his creative energy to a vast cycle of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations. In showing the corrupting influence of material things upon its members, O`Neill would provide "a prophetic epitome for the course of American destiny." Quoting extensively from unpublished notes, outlines, scenarios, and drafts, and incorporating detailed plot summaries, this book tells for the first time the complicated story of the cycle project. It shows what the dramatist tried to do, how he went about it, and why in the end he failed.

"A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed" began as a single play about a clipper ship, set in 1857 and 1858, but it expanded eventually to eleven plays going back to 1754 or 1755. O`Neill completed to his satisfaction only one play (published posthumously as A Touch of the Poet), although he drafted—and then destroyed—three other double-length plays and prepared a detailed scenario for a fifth. Yet the project`s failure contained within it a victory, for in 1939 O`Neill cast off his obsession with his cycle and went on to create such masterworks as The Iceman Cometh and Long Day`s Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Hughie.

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Donald C. Gallup was for thirty-three years curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, containing the principal O`Neill archive and now housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He has edited and published an extensive series of O`Neill manuscript materials and has received awards from the Eugene O`Neill Foundation, Tao House, and the Eugene O`Neill Society.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780300143850
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Note
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. June 1931 to January 1935
  6. January to February 1935
  7. February to April 1935
  8. April to July 1935
  9. July 1935
  10. July to September 1935
  11. September 1935 to July 1937
  12. September 1935 to July 1937
  13. October to November 1940
  14. October to November 1940
  15. Appendix: A Chronology of Composition
  16. Abbreviations
  17. Notes
  18. Select Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Permissions