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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ryder ThorntonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9781032322674ISBN 10: 1032322675 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 19 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""From his earliest writings, Eugene O’Neill explored depth as a dramatic theme and a theatrical effect, insisting that being in the world required a modern re-thinking, even—or especially—on stage in the USA. Ryder Thornton has shown how O’Neill’s inquiry, undertaken by a self-taught playwright who failed to finish his first year at college, can be understood in terms of three of the most formidable philosophers of the nineteenth century and, furthermore, how their ideas led to the artist’s profound reframing of modern drama."" William Davies King, Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance, University of California Santa Barbara ""Transfiguring Tragedy interweaves clear-eyed interpretations of Eugene O’Neill’s three foundational philosophers with masterful readings of the early plays—from the philosophical underpinnings of his earliest one-acts A Wife for a Life and The Web, to the designation of inaugural full-lengths Bread and Butter and Beyond the Horizon as 'tragedies of ownness,' to various philosophical syntheses like the Apollonian–Dionysian conflict in his expressionistic tours de force The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. Thornton’s boldly inclusive examination of O’Neill’s naturalistic Anna Christie shows how the ever-enigmatic play was inspired by Mencken's translation of Nietzsche’s The Antichrist and layered with influences that include Nietzsche, Stirner, Eastern philosophy, and Christian symbolism. With a keen intellect, Ryder Thornton has assembled a splendidly researched philosophical cosmology for America’s master dramatist."" Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts" ''From his earliest writings, Eugene O’Neill explored depth as a dramatic theme and a theatrical effect, insisting that being in the world required a modern re-thinking, even—or especially—on stage in the USA. Ryder Thornton has shown how O’Neill’s inquiry, undertaken by a self-taught playwright who failed to finish his first year at college, can be understood in terms of three of the most formidable philosophers of the nineteenth century and, furthermore, how their ideas led to the artist’s profound reframing of modern drama.'' William Davies King, Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance, University of California Santa Barbara ''Transfiguring Tragedy interweaves clear-eyed interpretations of Eugene O’Neill’s three foundational philosophers with masterful readings of the early plays—from the philosophical underpinnings of his earliest one-acts A Wife for a Life and The Web, to the designation of inaugural full-lengths Bread and Butter and Beyond the Horizon as 'tragedies of ownness,' to various philosophical syntheses like the Apollonian–Dionysian conflict in his expressionistic tours de force The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. Thornton’s boldly inclusive examination of O’Neill’s naturalistic Anna Christie shows how the ever-enigmatic play was inspired by Mencken's translation of Nietzsche’s The Antichrist and layered with influences that include Nietzsche, Stirner, Eastern philosophy, and Christian symbolism. With a keen intellect, Ryder Thornton has assembled a splendidly researched philosophical cosmology for America’s master dramatist.'' Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts ''From his earliest writings, Eugene O’Neill explored depth as a dramatic theme and a theatrical effect, insisting that being in the world required a modern re-thinking, even—or especially—on stage in the USA. Ryder Thornton has shown how O’Neill’s inquiry, undertaken by a self-taught playwright who failed to finish his first year at college, can be understood in terms of three of the most formidable philosophers of the nineteenth century and, furthermore, how their ideas led to the artist’s profound reframing of modern drama.'' William Davies King, Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance, University of California Santa Barbara ''Transfiguring Tragedy interweaves clear-eyed interpretations of Eugene O’Neill’s three foundational philosophers with masterful readings of the early plays—from the philosophical underpinnings of his earliest one-acts A Wife for a Life and The Web, to the designation of inaugural full-lengths Bread and Butter and Beyond the Horizon as “tragedies of ownness,” to various philosophical syntheses like the Apollonian-Dionysian conflict in his expressionistic tours de force The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. Thornton’s boldly inclusive examination of O’Neill’s naturalistic Anna Christie” shows how the ever-enigmatic play was inspired by Mencken's translation of Nietzsche’s The Antichrist and layered with influences that include Nietzsche, Stirner, Eastern philosophy, and Christian symbolism. With a keen intellect, Ryder Thornton has assembled a splendidly researched philosophical cosmology for America’s master dramatist.'' Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts Author InformationRyder Thornton is a Senior Professor of Practice in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Tulane University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |