A selective list of online literary criticism for playwright Eugene O'Neill, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Alexander, Doris. Publisher's blurb for Alexander's Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle: The Decisive Decade, 1924 - 1933 (Penn State Univ. Press, 1992)
Bogard, Travis and Jackson R. Bryer, eds. A review of Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill (Yale Univ. Press, 1988). First page of article only. Reviewed by Stephen A. Black in American Literature, Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 310-312
Brask, Per K. "Notes on O'Neill and A Touch of the Poet," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Carme, Manuel. "A ghost in the expressionist jungle of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones." African American Review, Spring-Summer, 2005
Chase, Yoko Onizuka"Eugene O’Neill’s Poetics of Dionysus through his Presentation of Xenoi, Metoikoi and Barbaroi," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Chothia, Jean. An introduction to Eugene O'Neill, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 13 November 2002
Chura, Patrick J. "'Vital contact': Eugene O'Neill and the working class." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2003
Dubost, Thierry. "Strange Interlude, and the Quest for Truth," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Field, Brad. On directing, producing, and staging O'Neill, "Doing O'Neill," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Gagnon, Donald P. "Pipe Dreams and Primitivism: Eugene O'Neill and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity." PhD dissertation, 2003
Gallup, Donald C. Publisher's blurb for Gallup's Eugene O`Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle: "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed" (Yale Univ. Press, 1998)
Herrmann-Miller, Eileen. "Staging O'Neill: Staging Greek Tragedy," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
King, William Davies. On Eugene O'Neill's marriage, "'Our Home! Our Home!': Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton at Spithead," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Larner, Daniel. On Eugene O'Neill's interest in classical drama, "O'Neill's Fear and Pity: the Dionysian Living Death," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Larner, Daniel. "Dionysus in Diaspora: O’Neill’s Tragedy of Muted Revelries," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Liu, Haiping. "From Beyond the Horizon to The Good Earth: Transformation of China in American Literary Consciousness," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Manheim, Michael, ed. Publisher's blurb for The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill, edited by Michael Manheim, with list of chapters and contributors
Smith, Madeline and Richard Eaton. "It Hath Made Us Mad: Two O'Neillians' Adventures in Bibliography," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Westgate, J. Chris. "Stumbling Amid the Ruins:Yank’s Absurd Inheritance in The Hairy Ape," published at eO'Neill.com (removed)
Worthen, W. B. A complete, book-length critical study published online, Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater. (Univ. of California Press, 1992). "Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a [play by W.B.] Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play." Courtesy of the California Digital Library
Young, Stark. Important early (1922) criticism of Eugene O'Neill's plays by Stark Young, from The New Republic (removed)
The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter makes the full text of its articles available, for articles written between 1977 and 1985
"Theater for Readers," Playwright Barbara Gelb summarizes significant scholarly books published on Eugene O'Neill to celebrate his centennial, NYTimes, 11/6/88
Peer reviewed essays on Eugene O'Neill, published at eO'Neill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive (removed)
A biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, from the web site Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Yale Library exhibition documents the influence of Oriental aesthetics on American Modernists including Eugene O'Neill
An "electronic archive" on Eugene O'Neill, provides details on libraries that contain O'Neill manuscripts, articles on Eugene O'Neill, and additional O'Neill information
The Nobel Prize web site for Eugene O'Neill has a brief biography and O'Neill's 1936 Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Strategies for teaching Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, and issues in the play, from Heath
PBS American Masters presentation on Eugene O'Neill
A lesson plan for comparing plays by Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, from the Kennedy Center
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