Introduction MICHAEL MANHEIM

1　“Celebrant of loss”：Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 STEPHEN A．BLACK

CONTENTS

List ofillustrations page

Notes on contributors

Chronology

List of plays and poems

2 O'Neill's philosophical and literary paragons EGIL T？RNQVIST

3 O'Neill and the theatre of his time DANIEL J．WATERMEIER

4 From trial to triumph：the early plays MARGARET LOFTUS RANALD

1 Louise Bryant，George Cram Cook，and O'Neill in the 1916 Provincetown Players production of Thirst at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown．（Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Yale University Library）

Eugene O'Neill at his player piano“Rosie”in the early 1940s． frontispiece

ILLUSTRATIONS

5 The middleplays JAMES A．ROBINSON

6 The late plays NORMAND BERLIN

7 Notable American stage productions RONALD WAINSCOTT

2 Eugene O'Neill，The Iceman Cometb，Martin Beck Theatre，New York，1946．Directed by Eddie Dowling，with James Barton as Hickey（Billy Rose Theatre Collection，The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts．Astor,Lenox and Tipden Foundations）

3 Josie（Colleen Dewhurst）and Tyrone（Jason Robards）in the JoséQuintero production of A Moon for the Misbegotten，New York，1974．（Photo：Martha Swope．Reproduced by permission of Time/Life Pictures）

8 O'Neill on screen KURT EISEN

4 Greta Garbo brooding over her whiskey and ginger ale in the 1930 MGM film of Anna Cbristie．（Reproduced by permission of the New York Museum of Modern Art film collection）

5 Four haunted Tyrones：Jason Robards（Jamie），Dean Stockwell（Edmund），and Ralph Richardson（James）watching Katharine Hepburn（Mary）in the 1962 Long Day's Journey Into Night，Embassy Pictures．（Reproduced by permission of the New York Museum of Mo

9 O'Neill's America：the strange interlude between the wars BRENDA MURPHY

10 O'Neill's African and Irish-Americans：stereotypes or“faithful realism”？ EDWARD L．SHAUGHNESSY

6 Charles Gilpin as the Emperor Jones in uniform，smiling defiantly， from a 1920 production．（Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Yale University Library）

11 O'Neill's female characters JUDITH E．BARLOW

12 “A tale of possessors self-dispossessed” DONALD GALLUP

13 Trying to write the family play：autobiography and the dramatic imagination JEAN CHOTHIA

14 The stature of Long Day's Journey Into Night MICHAEL MANHEIM

15 O'Neill and the cult of sincerity MATTHEW H．WIKANDER

16 O'Neill criticism MICHAEL MANHEIM

Select bibliography of full-length works

（Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Yale University Library）

Index