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During a conversation with critic Ward Morehouse, Eugene O'Neill stated, “I'm interested in trying to do better things.” His plays are testimony to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. Analyzing a range of O'Neill's plays, this book explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play—particularly through his staging of alienation, depictions of both kissing and fighting, and his unusual use of acoustics. Moving away from melodrama or “the problem play,” he revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, and silence or immobility for the creation of his tragedies.
