O'Neill Play by Play: Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms

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Alexander, Doris M. Eugene O’Neill’s creative struggle: the decisive decade, 1924-1933. Univ. Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1992, 21-29: ‘Desire Under the Elms’

Asselineau, Roger. The transcendental constant in American literature. NY: NY UP, 1980, 115-23: ‘Eugene O’Neill’s transcendental phase’ [S74] (from ‘Desire Under the Elms: a phase of Eugene O’Neill’s philosophy.’ Pp 277-83 in Eduard Kolb & Jörg Häsler, eds. Festschrift Rudolf Stamm. Bern: Francke, 1969); repr. on pp 59-66 in Griffin

Barr, Alan. ‘From under the shadow of O’Neill’s elms: Halldór Laxness’s Independent People and the encompassing hardness.’ Scandinavica 47 i 2008 31-46

Berlin, Normand. Eugene O’Neill. London: Macmillan, 1982, 71-84

-----. O’Neill’s Shakespeare. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1993, 57-82

-----. The secret cause: a discussion of tragedy. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Pr., 1981, 33-63: ‘Passion: Hippolytus, Phaedra, Desire’ (53-63 on the play) [S77]

Blesch, Edwin J. ‘Lots of desire, no elms: a consideration of Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms on film.’ Nassau Review 4 1981 14-22 [S11]

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Bowles, Patrick. ‘Another biblical parallel in Desire Under the Elms.’ Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 2 iii 1979 10-12 [S12]

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Chabrowe, Leonard. Ritual and pathos: the theater of Eugene O’Neill. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1976, 128-34

Chothia, Jean. Forging a language: a study of the plays of Eugene O’Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979, 38-40, 78-82

Cohn, Ruby. Dialogue in American drama. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1971, 8-67: ‘The wet sponge of Eugene O’Neill’ (22-25 on the play)

Conlin, Matthew T. ‘The tragic effect in [T. C. Murray’s] Autumn Fire and Desire Under the Elms.’ Modern Drama 1 1959 228-35 [M278]

Cosentino, Giacomo. ‘Epraim Cabot e la visione tragica di E. O’Neill.’ Ragioni Critiche 59-62 1987 21-28

Ćośic, Ileana. ‘Judžin O’Nil: velikan svoje epohe.’ Scena (Novi Sad) 16 i-ii 1980 147-67

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Dubost, Thierry, interview with Annie Ryan. ‘Desire Under the Elms: in Dublin, the Corn Exchange production, directed by Annie Ryan’ Eugene O’Neill Review 35 2014 177-84; performance review by Wendy Moony, 269-71

Dugan, Timothy. ‘No elms in sight.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 31 2009 103-13 (analysis of the innovative performance at the Goodman Theatre in 2009, directed by Robert Falls and starring Brian Dennehy)

Ehrlich, Alan. ‘A streetcar named desire under the elms: a study of dramatic space in A Streetcar Named Desire and Desire Under the Elms.’ Pp 126-36 in Jac Tharpe, ed. Tennessee Williams: a tribute. Jackson: Univ. of Mississippi Pr., 1977 [S90]

Engel, Edwin A. The haunted heroes of Eugene O’Neill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1953, 126-34: ‘Children of Adam’

Falk, Doris V. Eugene O’Neill and the tragic tension: an interpretive study of the plays. NY: Gordian Pr., 1958, 93-99

Fambrough, Preston. ‘The tragic cosmology of O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms.’ Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 10 ii 1986 25-29 [S23]

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Fleming, James R. ‘Cross cultural O’Neill: a Bengali Desire Under the Elms.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 24 2000 61-72 (interview with the adaptor, Sudipto Chatterjee)

Floyd, Virginia. The plays of Eugene O’Neill: a new assessment. NY: Ungar, 1985, 270-87

Frenz, Horst. ‘Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms and Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm.’ Jahrbüch für Amerikastudien 9 1964 160-65

Gordenstein, Arnold. ‘A few thousand battered books: Eugene O’Neill’s use of myth in Desire Under the Elms and Mourning Becomes Electra.’ Ilha do Desterro 15-16 1986 136-46 [S29]

Guha Majumdar, Rupendra. Central man: the paradox of heroism in modern American drama. Brussels: Lang, 2003, 133-41

Gumpert, Sirma S. ‘Beyond naturalism: a study of psychological conversion in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms.’ Interactions: Aegean Journal of English and American Studies 13 i 2004 57-69

Hartman, Murray. ‘Desire Under the Elms in the light of Strindberg’s influence.’ American Literature 33 1961 360-69 [M278]

Hays, Peter L. ‘Biblical perversions in Desire Under the Elms.’ Modern Drama 11 1969 423-28 [M282]

Herr, Linda L. ‘Stillborn future: dead and dying infants and children as a secondary image in the plays of Eugene O’Neill: an analysis of the image in Desire Under the Elms.’ Pp 11-17 in Arthur Gewirtz & James J. Kolb, eds. Art, glitter, and glitz: mainstream playwrights and popular theatre in 1920s America. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004

Hinden, Michael. ‘Desire and forgiveness: O’Neill’s diptych.’ Comparative Drama 14 1980 240-50 [S33]

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Ikeuchi, Yasuko. ‘Ah, Wilderness! and Desire Under the Elms in Japan.’ Recorder 3 i 1989 105-14 [S35]

Jinglan, Zhu. ‘Feelings in O’Neill’s plays: an actress analyzes Abbie in Desire Under the Elms.’ Recorder 3 i 1989 123-26 [S36]

Kennedy, Jeff. ‘Desire Under the Elms in the twenty-first century.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 31 2009 89-102

Khan, Hameed. ‘Transgression and transcendence: family in Desire Under the Elms.’ Pp 151-57 in Prasad [S102]

Kobernick, Mark. Semiotics of the drama and the style of Eugene O’Neill. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1989, 67-73: ‘Concluding discussion of Desire Under the Elms’; see also 139-40

Kolin, Philip C. ‘Parallels between Desire Under the Elms and [Williams’s] Sweet Bird of Youth.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 13 ii 1989 23-35 [S38]

Koreneva, Maya. ‘Leo Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness and Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms: a road to redemption.’ Pp 89-96 in Liu [S103]

Lacassagne, Claude L. ‘Espace et tragédie dans Desire Under the Elms de Eugène O’Neill.’ Recherches Ibériques et Cinématographiques, Strasbourg II 8-9 1988 59-67

Lau, Joseph S. M. Ts’ao Yü, the reluctant disciple of Chekhov and O’Neill: a study in literary influence. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 1970, 15-27: ‘Thunderstorm and Desire Under the Elms’ (from ‘Two emancipated Phaedras: Chou Fan-yi and Abbie Putnam as social rebels.’ Journal of Asian Studies 25 1966 699-711] [M282])

Leal, Juli. ‘Fedra abraza a Medea: Abbie Putnam de Deseo bajo los olmos (Desire Under the Elms, Eugene O’Neill, 1924).’ Pp 263-75 in Francesco De Martino & Carmen Morenilla, eds. Entre la creación y la recreación. Bari: Levante, 2005

Leaska, Mitchell A. The voice of tragedy. NY: Robert Speller, 1963, 263-72: ‘O’Neill’ (264-68 on the play)

Lee, E. Andrew. ‘Gothic domesticity in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 33 2012 71-90

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Lemanis, Mara. ‘Desire Under the Elms and tragic form: a study of misalliance.’ South Dakota Review 16 iii 1978 46-55 [S39]

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Long, Chester C. The role of nemesis in the structure of selected plays by Eugene O’Neill. The Hague: Mouton, 1968, 97-116

Madran, Cumhur Y. ‘The ambivalence of love and hate in Desire Under the Elms: a psychological and mythological approach.’ Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergesi 16 2006 449-58

Mahfouz, Safi M. ‘Tragic passion, romantic eloquence, and betrayal in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms.’ Studies in Literature and Language 1 iii 2010 1-14

Malhotra, M. L. Bridges of literature. Ajmer: Sunanda, 1971, 37-44: ‘Desire Under the Elms: an interpretation’ (from Literary Criterion 8 i 1967 62-68)

Mandl, Bette. ‘Family ties: landscape and gender in Desire Under the Elms.’ Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 11 ii 1987 19-22 [S41]

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McDonough, Edwin J. Quintero directs O’Neill: an examination of eleven plays of Eugene O’Neill staged by José Quintero in New York City, 1956-1981. Chicago: A Capella Books, 1991, 61-76: ‘Desire Under the Elms [1963]’

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Michaelides-Nouaros, A. ‘Philosophy in art: the idea of God in Eugene O’Neill’s play Desire Under the Elms.’ Diotima 10 1982 92-102

MikoÑ, Michael, & David Mulroy. ‘Reymont’s The Peasants: a probable influence on Desire Under the Elms.’ Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 10 i 1986 4-15 [S45]

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Prachand, Leena. ‘Politics of gender in All God’s Chillun Got Wings and Desire Under the Elms.’ Pp 79-85 in J. L. Plakkoottam & Prashant K Sinha, eds. Literature and politics in twentieth century America. Hyderabad: American Studies Research Center, 1993 [S115]

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