O'Neill In an Hour

In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O'Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium. There, O'Neill pondered his recent suicide attempt and his family's struggles with alcohol and drugs. It was there, too, that he decided to be a playwright after spending his days reading great works of literature and drama. Years later, looking back, he wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night, a play that he would complete at the very end of his career.

Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of O'Neill and the plays he wrote. Read O'Neill in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!

The book features:

• O'Neill in an Hour, the main essay of the book

• O'Neill In a Minute, a snapshot chronology

• A complete listing of O'Neill's work

• A list of O'Neill's contemporaries in all fields

• Excerpts from O'Neill's significant works

• An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader

• An index of the main essay.

Playwrights in an Hour is a series devoted to the most produced and studied playwrights in the English language, from the Greek masters to contemporary writers, and written by leading authorities in the field. Each short book places the playwright and his or her work in historical, social, and literary context.

In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O'Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium. There, O'Neill pondered his recent suicide attempt and his family's struggles with alcohol and drugs. It was there, too, that he decided to be a playwright after spending his days reading great works of literature and drama. Years later, looking back, he wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night, a play that he would complete at the very end of his career.

Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of O'Neill and the plays he wrote. Read O'Neill in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!

The book features:

• O'Neill in an Hour, the main essay of the book

• O'Neill In a Minute, a snapshot chronology

• A complete listing of O'Neill's work

• A list of O'Neill's contemporaries in all fields

• Excerpts from O'Neill's significant works

• An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader

• An index of the main essay.

Playwrights in an Hour is a series devoted to the most produced and studied playwrights in the English language, from the Greek masters to contemporary writers, and written by leading authorities in the field. Each short book places the playwright and his or her work in historical, social, and literary context.

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James Fisher, professor of theatre and head of the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has authored several books, including Understanding Tony Kushner, The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater: Modernism (co-authored with Felicia Hardison Londré), The Theater of Tony Kushner. Living Past Hope, Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography, Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography, Al Jolson: A Bio-Bibliography, and The Theatre of Yesterday and Tomorrow: Commedia dell'Arte on the Modern Stage. He has edited "We Will Be Citizens": New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theater, six volumes of The Puppetry Yearbook, and Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays. He is also a director and actor, author of two plays (The Bogus Bride and The Braggart Soldier, freely adapted from Plautus's Miles Gloriosus ), and served as book review editor for both the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and Broadside, the publication of the Theatre Library Association. Fisher was McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar at Wabash College in 1987-1988 and 1999-2000, where he taught for twenty-nine years, and was named "Theatre Person of the Year" by the Indiana Theatre Association in 1997. In 2007, Fisher received the Betty Jean Jones Award for Excellence in the Teaching of American Theatre from the American Theatre and Drama Society.