Eugene O’Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics

The plays of Eugene O’Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner’s attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or “the problem play,” O’Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.Eugene O’Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics is written by Thierry Dubost and published by McFarland. ISBNs for Eugene O’Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics are 9781476635682, 1476635684 and the print ISBNs are 9781476677286, 147667728X.