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Reviewers' Responses to the Early Plays of Eugene O'Neill: A Study in Influence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Vera Jiji
Vera Jiji
Affiliation:
Professor of English at, Brooklyn College.
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Eugene O'Neill would certainly have agreed with Susanne Langer's suggestive description of drama in Feeling and Form:

Drama is a great form which…. express[es]…. the whole life of feeling—call it “felt life,” “subjectivity,” “direct experience,” or what you will—which finds its articulate expression in art, and, I believe—only in art…. It…. objectif[ies] our subjective being—the most intimate “Reality” that we know. This function, and not the recording of contemporary scenes, politics, or even moral attitudes, is what relates art to life (366).

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Theatre Survey , Volume 29 , Issue 1: Eugene O'Neill Centennial Issue , May 1988 , pp. 69 - 86
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1988

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