O'Neill Play by Play: Middle Plays

Middle Plays

Alexander, Doris M. Eugene O’Neill’s creative struggle: the decisive decade, 1924-1933. Univ. Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1992. 339 pp [S74]

Carpenter, Frederick I. Eugene O’Neill. Rev. ed. Boston: Twayne, 1979, 99-115: ‘From The Ape to Marco: reaction’; 116-33: ‘From Lazarus to Electra: descent’

Choi, Y.-J. ‘The American playwright’s social response between the wars: centering on Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, The Great God Brown and Strange Interlude.’ Journal of Modern British and American Drama (Seoul) 15 iii 2002 199-231

Halfmann, Ulrich. ‘Formen und Tendenzen des sozialkritischen amerikanischen Dramas der zwanziger und dreissiger Jahre.’ Pp 144-81 in Gerhard Hoffmann, ed. Das amerikanische Drama. Bern: Francke, 1984

Miller, Jordan Y. ‘The other O’Neill.’ Pp 455-73 in Warren G. French, ed. The twenties. Deland, FL: Everett / Edwards, 1975 [S110]

----, & Winifred Frazer. American drama between the wars: a critical history. NY: G. K. Hall, 1991, 37-45: ‘Enter the son of James O’Neill’; 46-97: ‘ Eugene O’Neill: from nobody to the Nobel’ [S110]

Müller, Kurt. Konventionen und Tendenzen der Gesellschaftskritik im expressionistischen amerikanischen Drama der zwanziger Jahre. Frankfurt: Lang, 1977, 97-127: ‘Die Behandlung der Rassen- und Klassenproblematik in den expressionistischen Stücken O’Neills’

Murphy, Brenda. American realism and American drama, 1880-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987, 112-31: ‘The cutting edge: Eugene O’Neill’s realism, 1913-1933’ (see also 187-94) [M112]

-----. ‘O’Neill’s America: the strange interlude between the wars.’ Pp 135-47 in Manheim [S112]

Plett, Heinrich F., & Renate Plett. ‘New York: Variationen über das Thema Metropolis im amerikanischen Drama der zwanziger Jahre.’ Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 12 1982 103-33

Raleigh, John H. ‘Eugene O’Neill and the escape from the Château d’If.’ Pp 7-22 in Gassner [M144] (plays up to Days Without End)

Robinson, James A. ‘The middle plays.’ Pp 69-81 in Manheim [S119]

Wainscott, Ronald H. Staging O’Neill: the experimental years, 1920-1934. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1988. 337 pp [S129]