Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Strange Interlude Introduction. O'Neill settled down in Bermuda to write the first half of Strange Interlude in the spring of 1926. That summer, vacationing in Maine, he worked on the second half. During the writing of the play, he read several works of Freud and consulted a psychoanalyst on certain technical points in his psychological drama. Freudian analysis was not the only source O'Neill drew upon in the writing of Strange Interlude. Schopenhauer, the pessimistic German philosopher of the nineteenth century, influenced O'Neill's idea that love was rooted in basic ...
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