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Transfiguring Tragedy - Ryder Thornton

Transfiguring Tragedy

Schopenhauer, Stirner, and Nietzsche in Eugene O’Neill’s Early Plays

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Buch | Hardcover
178 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-32267-4 (ISBN)
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This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, concluding with The Hairy Ape, completed in 1921, as an illustration of the mastery he had achieved in dramatizing key concepts of philosophy.

Analyses of one-act and full-length plays from 1913 to 1921 reveal the influence of the three philosophers and establish that O’Neill was fundamentally a philosophic playwright, even from his earliest dramatic sketches. Specific concepts from Schopenhauer, Stirner, and Nietzsche went into O’Neill’s shaping of character arcs, dramatic circumstances, symbology, and theme. Among them are Schopenhauer’s concept of will and representation, Stirner’s notion of possession, and Nietzsche’s principle of the Apollonian–Dionysian duality. These ideas were foundational to O’Neill’s construction of tragic irony apparent in his early period plays. The critical concepts of these three philosophers are the major pathways in this study. However, such an approach inevitably reveals other layers of spiritual influence, such as Catholicism and Eastern philosophy, which are touched on in these analyses.

This book is a much-needed introduction to philosophic concepts in Eugene O’Neill’s early work and would be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre studies and philosophy.

Ryder Thornton is a Senior Professor of Practice in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Tulane University, USA.

1. Suffering and Solace: Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in the Early One-Act Plays 2. Rites of Passage: Suffering, Illusion, and Possession in the Glencairn Plays 3. Tragedies of Ownness: Stirner’s Philosophy of Egoism in the First Full-length Plays 4. Drums and the Man: Ceremony, Power, and Race in The Emperor Jones 5. “New Forces Out of the Old”: Nietzsche, Stirner, Christian Symbolism, and Vedantic Philosophy in “Anna Christie” 6. Apes and Ghosts: Philosophy, Tragedy, and Comedy in The Hairy Ape

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 385 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-32267-5 / 1032322675
ISBN-13 978-1-032-32267-4 / 9781032322674
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