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...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. In the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer examines the emotional factors in the playwright's family history that drove him to write his great sprawling tragedies...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: he made his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: make his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
Vile Weed. For "the rest of society," most O'Neill biographers have read "Father." But James O'Neill comes off rather well with Sheaffer. He thinks that the old man was justified when he declaimed to his sons in his best matinee voice: "Ingratitude, the vilest weed that grows." For one thing, he did not, as his sons charged, hire a quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with...
Writing-like the sea-may have given O'Neill a vacation from the kind of dry-land actuality he hated. But by 1920, where Sheaffer ends the first volume, both O'Neill and the American theater were about to come of age, and it had become obvious that the make-believe of drama was where O'Neill most truly engaged life. "Resentful against God, resentful against family, resentful, resentful," as a Harvard classmate described him, he crossed in the right direction the thin line that separates self-pity from pity and hate from love, making a tentative...