Anna Christie | Eugene O'Neill: Modern and Postmodern
John Antush's essay discusses O'Neill's approach to modernism and postmodernism and how his experimentation challenges the form of the traditional love story.
When we pause to reassess Eugene O’Neill’s contribution to American theatre, what astonishes us is not just the sustained dramatic achievement through the period that we now call ‘‘modern’’ (1920–1956 in America), but the multiple ways he anticipates and lays the foundations for a postmodern dramatic aesthetic. O’Neill spent most of his literary career chipping away at those stage conventions that dominated the nineteenth-century theatre and the popular imagination. From his realistic depiction of man’s desire to belong to nature in [The entire page is 5173 words long] The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:
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