
Search "Mourning Becomes Electra"
|

|
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill | |
|
About 298 pages (89,435 words) in 7 products |
|



Mourning Becomes Electra Lesson Plan
33,750 words, approx. 113 pages
 A complete lesson plan by BookRags. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.




| Name: |
Eugene O'Neill | | Birth Date: |
October 16, 1888 | | Death Date: |
November 27, 1953 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright |
summary from source:

Biography of Eugene O'Neill
17194 words, approx. 57.3 pages
 In the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The cha...
summary from source:

Biography of Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill
16062 words, approx. 53.5 pages
 In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The...
summary from source:

Biography of Eugene O'Neill
5857 words, approx. 19.5 pages
 "I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than fifty plays, won the Nobel and several Pulitzer prizes,...



Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:

Mourning Becomes Electra Information
490 words, approx. 2 pages
 Mourning Becomes Electra is the title for a trilogy of plays by Eugene O'Neill, first performed in 1931. In 1947 the play was made into a movie by Dudley Nichols. In 1967, the Metropolitan Opera gave the world premiere of an operatic version, composed...



summary from source:
 Variety
Mourning Becomes Electra.
12/23/2002: 603 words, approx. 2 pages (LONG WHARF THEATER; 487 SEATS; $47.50 TOP) NEW HAVEN, Conn. A Long Wharf Theater presentation, in association with Seattle's ACT Theater, of three plays by Eugene O'Neill ("Homecoming," "The Hunted," "The Haunted") performed with two intermissions. Directed by Gordon Edelstein. Set, Andrew...
summary from source:
 New Criterion
Mourning Becomes Electra.(Review)
12/01/1998: 1,201 words, approx. 4 pages Mourning Becomes Electra, by Marvin David Levy, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts for American lives. While that observation remains contestable, the resurrection this fall of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes...



Literary Criticism
summary from source:

Robert Feldman
5,292 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Feldman illuminates the influence of Sigmund Freud's concept of the death instinct on Eugene O'Neill's plays Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, but acknowledges that O'Neill's characters seek death as an escape from the pain of living. rather than as an instinctual urge.


|
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill | |
|
About 298 pages (89,435 words) in 7 products |
|
|