The Ecological Eugene O'Neill: Nature's Veiled Purpose in the Plays

by Robert Baker-White

The dramas of Eugene O'Neill--often called America's first serious playwright--exhibit an imagining of the natural world that enlivens the plays and marks the boundaries of the characters' fates. O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, desert plains, the rocky soil of New England. This new approach to O'Neill's dramas explores these ecological settings as crucial to his characters' ability to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786498757
• ISBN13: 9780786498758
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher