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O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo. By Arthur and Barbara Gelb. New York: Applause Books, 2000; pp. 758. $40.00 hardcover.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2002

Yvonne Shafer
Yvonne Shafer
Affiliation:
St. John's University
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Extract

he names of Arthur and Barbara Gelb have been connected with Eugene O'Neill ever since their 1962 biography of the playwright became a surprise bestseller. Since that time, they have written numerous articles and reviews, and their biography has become an unavoidable landmark in O'Neill scholarship. In the introduction to their new book, the Gelbs write that, following the publication of the earlier biography, “countless studies of O'Neill's plays [were] published, along with chronicles of his life and times.” Many of these texts used the Gelb book as a guide, some of which “surpassed segments of our own research, elaborated on our early discoveries and caught us in errors” (xiv).

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BOOK REVIEWS
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , May 2002 , pp. 94 - 96
Copyright
© 2002 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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