Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility

by Edward L. Shaughnessy

Book Overview

This latest book from veteran O'Neillian Edward L. Shaughnessy examines the influence of the Irish playwright's Catholic heritage on his moral imagination. Critics, due to O'Neill's early renunciation of faith at age 15, have mostly overlooked this presence in his work. While Shaughnessy makes no attempt to reclaim him for Catholicism, he uncovers evidence that O'Neill retained the imprint of his Irish Catholic upbringing and acculturation in his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268008825
• ISBN13: 9780268008826
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"