O'Neill Play by Play: Reference and Bibliography

Reference and Bibliography

Atkinson, Jennifer M. Eugene O’Neill: a descriptive bibliography. Pittsburgh, PA: Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr., 1974. 410 pp [S75]

Black, Stephen A. File on O’Neill. London: Methuen, 1993. 96 pp [S78] (data on each play)

Boldori, Rosa. ‘Examen de la bibliografía sobre Eugene O’Neill.’ San Marcos 6 ii 1967 31-48 (relatively worthless)

Bryan, George B., & Wolfgang Mieder. The proverbial Eugene O’Neill: an index to proverbs in the works of Eugene Gladstone O’Neill. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1995. 359 pp (includes a 77-page introduction) [S82]

Bryer, Jackson R. ‘Forty years of O’Neill criticism: a selected bibliography.’ Modern Drama 4 1961 196-216

-----, & Robert M. Dowling, eds. Eugene O’Neill: the contemporary reviews. NY: Cambridge UP, 2014. 991 pp

Cargill, Oscar, et al. ‘Works about O’Neill and his plays.’ Pp 495-517 in Cargill

Dowling, Robert M. Critical companion to Eugene O’Neill: a literary reference to his life and work. NY: Facts on File, 2009. 818 pp (the bulk of this highly useful reference work consists of extensive descriptions of various aspects of each play, followed by a large section on ‘Related people, places, and topics’)

Eugene O'Neill Papers, 1917-1928 (MS Thr 18.1-18.13). Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University (series: I. MS Thr 18.1: Letters from Agnes Boulton to Eugene O'Neill; II. MS Thr 18.2: Letters from Eugene O'Neill to Agnes Boulton and other letters; and III. MS Thr 18.3-18.13: Compositions)

Frenz, Horst, & Susan H. Tuck. ‘Bibliography.’ Pp 185-218 in Frenz & Tuck, eds. Eugene O’Neill’s critics: voices from abroad. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984

Innes, Christopher, with Katherine Carlstrom & Scott Fraser. Tweentieth-century British and American theatre: a critical guide to archives. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, 203-06

Maartensson, Sigvard. Eugene O’Neills dramatik; handbok till radioteaterns huvudserie, spelåret 1957/58. Stockholm: Radiotjänst, 1957. 158 pp

Martine, James J. ‘Introduction.’ Pp 1-31 in Martine (valuable bibliographical essay through the 1970s)

Miller, Jordan Y. Eugene O’Neill and the American critic: a bibliographical checklist. 2^nd ed. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1973. 553 pp [S109] (annotated; English-language works only)

Otero, Rosalie. Guide to American drama explication. NY: G. K. Hall, 1995, 234-89 (useful for analytics of articles that treat several plays)

Raleigh, John H. ‘Eugene O’Neill.’ Pp 417-43 in Jackson R. Bryer, ed. Sixteen modern American authors: a survey of research and criticism. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1974; ‘Eugene O’Neill.’ Pp 480-518 in Jackson R. Bryer, ed. Sixteen modern American authors, volume two. Durham: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1990 [S117]

Ranald, Margaret L. The Eugene O’Neill companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1984. 827 pp [S117] (encyclopedia)

-----. ‘Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953).’ Pp 323-47 in William W. Demastes, ed. American playwrights, 1880-1953: a research and production sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1995 [S117]

Reaves, J. Russell. An O’Neill concordance. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1969. 3 vols. [M145]

Salem, James M. A guide to critical reviews. Part I: American drama, 1909-1969. 2^nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Pr., 1973, 348-72 (i.e. reviews by drama critics)

Smith, Madeline C., & Richard Eaton. ‘Eugene O’Neill.’ Pp 235-58 in Richard Copley & Barbara Cantalupo, eds. Prospects for the study of American literature. NY: AMS, 2009

-----. Eugene O’Neill: an annotated international bibliography, 1973 through 1999. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. 242 pp (supersedes their Eugene O’Neill: an annotated bibliography. NY: Garland, 1988. 320 pp)