O'Neill Play by Play: Selected Theatre and Film Studies

Selected Theatre and Film Studies

Barlow, Judith E. ‘Influence, echo and coincidence: O’Neill and the Provincetown’s women writers.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 27 2005 22-28

Ben-Zvi, Linda. ‘Eugene O’Neill and film.’ Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 7 i 1983 3-10 [S8]

-----. ‘The Provincetown Players: the success that failed.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 27 2005 9-21

Brietzke, Zander. The aesthetics of failure: dynamic structure in the plays of Eugene O’Neill. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. 258 pp (adopts ‘the critical perspective of the stage director’)

Brüning, Eberhard. ‘Eugene O’Neill und die Mündigkeit des amerikanischen Theaters.’ Sitzungsberichte der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philologisch-Historische Klasse 130 ii 1990 3-32

Cane, Gigi. Teatro d’America. Turin: Società Editrice Torinese, 1950, 181-212: ‘Eugene O’Neill: the little theatre’s gift to American drama’

Cooper, Burton L. ‘Some problems of adapting O’Neill for film.’ Pp 73-86 in Moorton [S85]

Cornwell, Paul. ‘American drama at the Cambridge Festival Theatre, 1928-1935.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 27 2005 61-75 (stresses productions of O’Neill’s plays at this English noncommercial theatre)

Dauster, Frank. ‘Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder y el teatro independiente.’ Pp 21-26 in Osvaldo Pellettieri & George W. Woodyard, eds. De Eugene O’Neill al ‘happening’: teatro norteamericano y teatro argentino, 1930-1990. Buenos Aires: Galerna, 1995

Egan, Leona R. Provincetown as a stage: Provincetown, the Provincetown Players, and the discovery of Eugene O’Neill. Orleans, MA: Parnassus, 1994. 296 pp [S88]

Fleisher, Frederic, & Horst Frenz. ‘Eugene O’Neill and the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm: the later phase.’ Modern Drama 10 1967 300-311 [M181]

Fletcher, Anne. ‘A closed shop?: Max Gorelik and the Provincetown.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 28 2006 80-100

Frenz, Horst. ‘Eugene O’Neill in Deutschland.’ Euphorion 50 1956 307-27

-----. ‘Eugene O’Neill on the German stage.’ Theatre Annual 20 1953 24-36

-----. ‘Eugene O’Neill on the London stage.’ Queen’s Quarterly 54 1947 223-30

-----. ‘Notes on Eugene O’Neill in France.’ Pp 59-72 in Manfred Durzak, ed. Texte und Kontexte: Studien zur deutschen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft: Festschrift für Norbert Fuerst. Bern: Francke, 1973

Golden, Joseph. The death of Tinker Bell: the American theatre in the 20^th century. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1967, 30-51: ‘O’Neill and the passing of pleasure’ [M126]

Granger, Bruce I. ‘Eugene O’Neill: man of the theater.’ Pp 24-32 in Klaus Lanziger, ed. Americana-Austriaca, III. Vienna: Braumüller, 1974 [S97]

Halfmann, Ulrich. Unreal realism: O’Neills dramatisches Werk im Spiegel seiner szenischen Kunst. Bern: Francke, 1969. 191 pp

Hayes, Richard. ‘“The scope of the movies”: three films and their influence on Eugene O’Neill.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 25 2001 37-53

Highsmith, James M. ‘O’Neill’s idea of theater.’ South Atlantic Bulletin 33 iv 1968 18-21 [M188]

Hoover, Marjorie L. ‘Three O’Neill plays in the 1920’s productions by Tairov’s Kamerny Theater.’ Theatre History Studies 11 1991 123-27 [S34]

Kenton, Edna. The Provincetown Players and the Playwrights’ Theatre, 1915-1922. Ed. Travis Bogard & Jackson R. Bryer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. 224 pp (first book publication of this historical memoir by an active participant)

Kovács, József. O’Neill müvei Magyarországon. Világirod: Figyelö, 1961

Lewis, Ward B. Eugene O’Neill: the German reception of America’s first dramatist. NY: Lang, 1984. 222 pp (publ. diss.) [S104]

McDonough, Edwin J. Quintero directs O’Neill: an examination of eleven plays of Eugene O’Neill staged by José Quintero in New York City, 1956-1981. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Pr., 1989. 230 pp; also Chicago: A Capella Books, 1991. 305 pp [S109]

Murphy, Brenda. The Provincetown Players and the culture of modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. 282 pp

Murray, Edward. The cinematic imagination: writers and the motion pictures. NY: Ungar, 1972, 16-35: ‘Eugene O’Neill, expressionism, and film’

Olsson, Tom J. A. O’Neill och dramaten: en studie kring arbetet med och mottagandet av fjorton olika O’Neill-uppsättningar på Dramatiska teatern åren 1923-1962. Stockholm: Akademilitteratur, 1977. 272 pp [S156] (English summary, 259-71)

Orlandello, John. O’Neill on film. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1982. 182 pp [S113]

Pao, Angela C. ‘Changing faces: recasting national identity in all-Asian(-)American dramas.’ Theatre Journal 53 2001 389-409 (productions of the play and Miller’s Death of a Salesman in Peking)

Prasad, Hari M. The dramatic art of Eugene O’Neill. New Delhi: Associated Publishing House, 1987, 28-52: ‘Symbolism of stage’

Quintero, José. If you don’t dance they beat you. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974, 215-64: ‘O’Neill-Quintero’ [S116]

Ritschel, Nelson O. ‘Synge and the Irish influence of the Abbey Theatre on Eugene O’Neill.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 29 2007 129-50

Sands, Jeffrey E. ‘O’Neill’s stage directions and the actor.’ Pp 192-205 in Moorton [S119]

Sarlós, Robert K. Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players: theatre in ferment. Amherst: UP of Massachusetts, 1982. 265 pp [S119] (see index for plays)

Sevensson, Bo. Eugene O’Neills scenanvisingar. Lund: Univ. of Lund, Research Group for the Dramatic Arts, 1969. 48 leaves (on cover: Eugene O’Neill’s stage directions)

Shafer, Yvonne. Performing O’Neill: conversations with actors and directors. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 2001. 259 pp

Shaughnessy, Edward L. Eugene O’Neill in Ireland: the critical reception. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1988. 221 pp [S121] (includes essay, 1-128; ‘Irish essays on O’Neill,’ 151-93; data on productions, 195-213); ‘O’Neill in Ireland: an update.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 22 1998 137-56 [S60]

Tiusanen, Timo. O’Neill’s scenic images. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1968. 388 pp [M152]

Törnqvist, Egil. A drama of souls: studies in O’Neill’s super-naturalistic technique. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1969, 47-108: ‘The human setting’ (47-77: ‘Scenery’; 77-108: ‘Lighting’)

-----. Eugene O’Neill: a playwright’s theatre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003, 26-35: ‘Page and stage’ (stage directions)

Weinstein, Katherine. ‘Towards a theatre of creative imagination: Alexander Tairov’s O’Neill productions.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 22 1998 157-70 [S69]

White, Leslie. ‘Eugene O’Neill and the Federal Theatre Project.’ Resources for American Literary Study 17 1990 63-85 [S70]