Eugene O’Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics
Résumé
The plays of Eugene O’Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner’s attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or “the problem play,” O’Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.
Sommaire
1. Aristotle Got his Gun : From A Wife for a Life, Now I Ask You! [...] to A Touch of the Poet.
2. Thirst: A Thetrical Appetizer.
3. Human and Aesthetic Migrations in Fog.
4. Bound East for Cardiff, an Immobile Crossing.
5. The Movie Man: The Failure of Aesthetics?
6. Servitude: Portrait of the Artist as a Committed Playwright.
7. Before Breakfast: An Overemphasized Mononogue?
8. Exorcism: The Road Not Taken.
9."Harmless Foights" in the Sea Plays.
10. Home, Elsewhere: Tragic (Im)mobility in Beyond the Horizon
11. Madness in Where the Cross Is Made and Gold.
12. A Long, Long Kiss: Labial Contacts in the Straw, Diff'rent, The First Man, The Fountain and Welded.
13. The Aesthetics of (Fake) Salvation in "Anna Christie".
14. The Emperor Jones:Inventing a New Dramaturgy.
15. The Hairy Ape: An Orphean Journey into Thought.
16. A Playwright-Director Staging The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
17. A Thing Is Not a Thing: An Uncanny Stage Presence in All God's Chillun Got Wings.
18. Opaque or Transparent Representations of Desire in Desire Under the Elms.
19. Home Away from Home:Greed in Marco Millions.
20. The Great God Brown: Shedding Old-Fashioned Staging Models?
21. Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo:Nonverbal Communications.
22. Strange Interlude: Exposing the Invisible.
23. The Ways of the Flesh in Mourning Becomes Electra.
24. A Kiekegaardian Comedy: The Painless Contradictions of a Festive Meal in An, Wilderness!
25. Days Without End: A Modern Miracle Play?
26. The Origin of a World:Male Privacy and Tragedy in A Touch of the Poet.
27. A Garden of One's Own: Heterotopia in More Stately Mansions.
28. O'Neill's Choric Designs in the Iceman Cometh.
29. Long Day's Journey into Night: Words for the Birth of a Ghostly Irish Playwright.
30. Hughie, Written More to Be Read Than Staged?
31.The Road to Salvation in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Sommaire
1. Aristotle Got his Gun : From A Wife for a Life, Now I Ask You! [...] to A Touch of the Poet.
2. Thirst: A Thetrical Appetizer.
3. Human and Aesthetic Migrations in Fog.
4. Bound East for Cardiff, an Immobile Crossing.
5. The Movie Man: The Failure of Aesthetics?
6. Servitude: Portrait of the Artist as a Committed Playwright.
7. Before Breakfast: An Overemphasized Mononogue?
8. Exorcism: The Road Not Taken.
9."Harmless Foights" in the Sea Plays.
10. Home, Elsewhere: Tragic (Im)mobility in Beyond the Horizon
11. Madness in Where the Cross Is Made and Gold.
12. A Long, Long Kiss: Labial Contacts in the Straw, Diff'rent, The First Man, The Fountain and Welded.
13. The Aesthetics of (Fake) Salvation in "Anna Christie".
14. The Emperor Jones:Inventing a New Dramaturgy.
15. The Hairy Ape: An Orphean Journey into Thought.
16. A Playwright-Director Staging The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
17. A Thing Is Not a Thing: An Uncanny Stage Presence in All God's Chillun Got Wings.
18. Opaque or Transparent Representations of Desire in Desire Under the Elms.
19. Home Away from Home:Greed in Marco Millions.
20. The Great God Brown: Shedding Old-Fashioned Staging Models?
21. Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo:Nonverbal Communications.
22. Strange Interlude: Exposing the Invisible.
23. The Ways of the Flesh in Mourning Becomes Electra.
24. A Kiekegaardian Comedy: The Painless Contradictions of a Festive Meal in An, Wilderness!
25. Days Without End: A Modern Miracle Play?
26. The Origin of a World:Male Privacy and Tragedy in A Touch of the Poet.
27. A Garden of One's Own: Heterotopia in More Stately Mansions.
28. O'Neill's Choric Designs in the Iceman Cometh.
29. Long Day's Journey into Night: Words for the Birth of a Ghostly Irish Playwright.
30. Hughie, Written More to Be Read Than Staged?
31.The Road to Salvation in A Moon for the Misbegotten.