Contour in Time The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill one of America's most gifted and prolific playwrights wrote more than 60 plays between 1914 and 1941 a level of creativity paralleled in modern times only by Bernard Shaw. The progress of his art from crude one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his later years is a story as dramatic and compelling as that of his tortured personal history. Combining the two Professor Bogard traces the contours of O'Neill's life in his art. By discussing in their approximate order of composition the published and unpublished works Bogard illuminates not only the plays but also the literary aesthetic and historical influences on the playwright's development. For the revised edition of this insightful meticulously written work the author has added new and unpublished material on A Tale of Possessors Self-dispossessed a cycle of nine plays written by O'Neill during the 1930s and '40s only one of which he readied for the stage. Among the plays in this cycle that have been posthumously produced are More Stately Mansions (New York 1967) and A Touch of the Poet (New York 1958).

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• ISBN Contour in Time ( The Plays of Eugene O'Neill ) book 528 pages