Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Feasting on the dead: O'Neill's treatment of the racial other in thirst/Rama Kundu. 2. Sex and property as means of tragedy in desire under the Elms/Basavaraj Naikar. 3. Use of myth in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's journey into night/Avadhesh Kumar Singh. 4. The many-splendoured O'Neill/Mita Biswas. 5. Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape: A lexical perspective/Mukesh Ranjan Verma. 6. O'Neill's strange interlude: a reinterpretation/S.N. Zeba. 7. Eugene gladstone O'Neill as a playwright/K.A. Agarwal. 8. The use of liquor in the plays of Eugene O'Neill/Madhu Mehrotra. 9. Eve's daughters: women in desire under the Elms/Urmila Chakroborty. 10. Buddhism and Eugene O'Neill: treatment of desire and suffering in Mourning Becomes Electra/Monika Gupta. 11. True marriage in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun got Wings/Anupama Vohra Sawhney. 12. Eugene O'Neill's the hairy ape: a symbolic representation of modern man's predicament/Nagendra Kumar. 13. Re-writing desire: Eugene O'Neill's desire under the Elms/Mina Surjit Singh. 14. The emperor Jones: a study in expressionism/S.P. Swain. 15. The tragic world of cosmic anguish in the plays of Eugene O'Neill/Jyoti Kala. 16. All God's Chillun Got Wings: O'Neill's presentation of the black/S.N. Zeba. 17. Self-deception--man's crucifier or saviour: the O'Neillian statement/Gunjan Chaturvedi. 18. O'Neill's tragic vision: modern man as a Sisyphus/Charu Mehrotra. 19. Illusion and disillusion in The Iceman Cometh/Kalpana Agarwal. 20. Eugene O'Neill: views on contemporary civilisation/Abha Sharma. 21. O'Neill's view of stepping a way from liberty/Sonia Singh Kushwah. 22. Illusion and reality in O'Neill's The Great God Brown/Manjusha Kaushik. 23. Eugene O'Neill: a journey from alienation to affirmation/Vinod Kumar Maheshwari. Name index. Subject index.

"Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), recipient of Nobel Prize for literature, holds a unique place in the history of American drama. This volume analyses the formative forces that shaped his genius, his creative achievements, and his contribution to drama. The students, teachers and scholars interested in the study of O'Neill will find the present work useful. It will also be an important reference work for researchers interested in the study of American drama in general. Contributions from eminent scholars on different aspects of O'Neill have enhanced the value of the collection." (jacket)