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The Origins of the O'Neill Renaissance: A History of the 1956 Productions of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Sheila Hickey Garvey
Sheila Hickey Garvey
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Associate Professor, of Theatre Arts at Southern Connecticut State University
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Extract

At a press conference to publicize the opening of The Iceman Cometh in 1946, Eugene O'Neill was quoted as saying that he considered America “instead of the most successful country in the world,… its greatest failure…, the greatest failure because it was given everything, more than any other country. Through moving as rapidly as it has, it has never acquired any real roots. Its main idea is that everlasting game of trying to possess your own soul and the things outside of it, too.”

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Theatre Survey , Volume 29 , Issue 1: Eugene O'Neill Centennial Issue , May 1988 , pp. 51 - 68
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1988

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NOTES

1 Quoted in Sheaffer, Louis, O'Neill: Son and Anist (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973), p. 577.Google Scholar

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3 Ibid.

4 Sheaffer, pp. 585–86.

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10 Quoted in Gary Vena, “A Cold Wind from the Hell-Hole,” unpublished paper presented at “Eugene O'Neill: The Later Years” conference, Suffolk University, Boston, 30 May 1986, p. 19.

11 Quoted in Vena, “A Cold Wind,” p. 19.

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51 Interview, Quintero, 1 June 1986.

52 Ibid.

53 Eldridge, p. 287.

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55 Interview, Mann, 6 June 1986.

56 Interview, Quintero, 31 May 1986.

57 Ibid.

58 Interview, Mann, 6 June 1986.

59 Theatre Arts, pp. 27, 28.

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