O'Neill Play by Play: A Wife for a Life

A Wife for a Life

(Short version of “The Life of Bessie Bowen”)

Bogard, Travis. Contour in time: the plays of Eugene O’Neill. Rev. ed. NY: Oxford UP, 1988, 7-14

Eisen, Kurt. The inner strength of opposites: O’Neill’s novelistic drama and the melodramatic imagination. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Pr., 1994, 91-94

Floyd, Virginia. The plays of Eugene O’Neill: a new assessment. NY: Ungar, 1985, 21-25

Törnqvist, Egil. ‘O’Neill’s firstborn.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 13 ii 1989 5-11 [S65] (it is ‘not stillborn’)

Voelker, Paul D. ‘Biography, autobiography and artistry in A Wife for a Life.’ Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 12 i 1988 10-17 [S67]

Vorlicky, Robert. ‘O’Neill’s first play: A Wife for a Life.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 20 1996 5-10 [S68]