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A Play AnalysisO’Neill’s The Hairy Ape in Relation to Greek Tragedy, Italian Futurism, and Divine Comedy

A Play Analysis: O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape in Relation to Greek Tragedy, Italian Futurism, and... [There are four aspects of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape (1921) that, because of the play’s strong naturalist-expressionistic stylistic component, have hitherto been neglected or completely ignored: first its “comedy,” as O’Neill describes it in the subtitle, “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life in Eight Scenes”; second, its connection, or opposition, to Italian futurism; third, its choice of so lowly a protagonist as Robert “Yank” Smith to symbolize humanity itself; and last, the relationship of The Hairy Ape to ancient Greek tragedy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Play AnalysisO’Neill’s The Hairy Ape in Relation to Greek Tragedy, Italian Futurism, and Divine Comedy

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SensePublishers
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© SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015
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67 –78
DOI
10.1007/978-94-6300-280-6_6
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Abstract

[There are four aspects of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape (1921) that, because of the play’s strong naturalist-expressionistic stylistic component, have hitherto been neglected or completely ignored: first its “comedy,” as O’Neill describes it in the subtitle, “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life in Eight Scenes”; second, its connection, or opposition, to Italian futurism; third, its choice of so lowly a protagonist as Robert “Yank” Smith to symbolize humanity itself; and last, the relationship of The Hairy Ape to ancient Greek tragedy.]

Published: Jan 1, 2015

Keywords: Modern Life; Greek Tragedy; Comic Character; Ocean Liner; American Drama

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