Editor: Harley Hammerman

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter was begot by Fred Wilkins in the winter of 1977, and flourished through the winter of 1988, at which time it morphed into The Eugene O'Neill Review.  It was created not as "a pudgy review or quarterly," but as a "newsletter" in which "far-flung articles" could be published.  Laconics is an online journal which welcomes those same pithy, provocative, far-flung articles embraced by the original Newsletter.  Please submit papers (with digital images, if appropriate) to the Laconics Editor.

Volume 0, 1999-2005
Stage Directions: O'Neill's Unheard Voice... Notes on O'Neill and A Touch of the Poet... Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953: A Descriptive Chronology of His Plays, Theatrical Career, and Dramatic Theories... Eugene O’Neill’s Poetics of Dionysus through his Presentation of Xenoi, Metoikoi and Barbaroi... Strange Interlude, and the Quest for Truth... Doing O'Neill... On Collecting O'Neill... On Collecting O'Neill: Part Two... Staging O’Neill: Staging Greek Tragedy... “Our Home! Our Home!”: Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton at Spithead... Dionysus in Diaspora: O’Neill’s Tragedy of Muted Revelries... O'Neill's Fear and Pity: the Dionysian Living Death... From Beyond the Horizon to The Good Earth: Transformation of China in American Literary Consciousness... O'Neill Family Genealogy -- Frank A. Kunckel's Letter... Gene & Aggie... Dreaming Pipe Dreams Under the Influence of Dionysus: Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy as Inspiration for Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh... IT HATH MADE US MAD: Two O’Neillians’ Adventures in Bibliography... The Inescapable Father: O'Neill's Strange Interlude... Alone in the Dark: Isolation in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night... Stumbling Amid the Ruins: Yank’s Absurd Inheritance in The Hairy Ape... The Concept of Self Deception in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill... Theatre Reviews...

Volume 1, 2006
What Did Eugene O’Neill Look Like Naked?: Trouble in the Flesh... Between Men: Gay Sensibility and The Great God Brown... O’Neill’s American Precursors... Eugene O'Neill and Paul Robeson: An Uneasy Collaboration in Three of O'Neill's Early Plays... John Francis, Go-Between for Provincetown and the Players... Diff’rent: Variations on a Theme... On Two Major Recent Productions of O’Neill in Japan... Dismissed without Prejudice: O'Neill's Anti-Semitism or, Some of My Best Friends... Anna Christie and Christy Mahon... Yank’s Consciousness of Alienation in O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape... The Sea versus Anna: Metaphoric Contrarieties... Eugene O’Neill and John Ford: Their Long Voyage Home... O’Neill’s S.S. Glencairn Cycle: Page Vs. Stage... O'Neill's Ireland: Old Sod or Blarney Bog?... All God’s Chillun: Religion and “Painty Faces” versus the NAACP and the Provincetown Players...
From Paterson to P’town: How a Silk Strike in New Jersey Inspired the Provincetown Players... Filtering America’s Past Through Sunlight: Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!... Debunking "The Screenews of War"... Theatre Reviews...

Volume 2, 2007
Hughie: Robards' Monte Cristo?... Yank: A Musical Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape... The Hairy Ape: An Illustrated Blog... Parallels in the Work of Eugene O’Neill and August Wilson...

Volume 3, 2008
Casting the Curse of Dionysus on the Modern Version of the Greek Gods... A Call to Restore the Classics at Selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); For Example, Eugene O'Neill... Theatre Reviews... The Ape and the Elephant... The Id, Ego and Super Ego of O’Neill: Reflected in The Iceman Cometh... Paradise Lost: The Tragic Vision of O’Neill’s Historical Cycle and Faulkner’s Yoknatapawpha Saga... Jero Magon, Stager of Eugene O'Neill... Hammerman's O'Neill...

Volume 4, 2009
Reaching Beyond the Horizon: Introducing a New Generation to Eugene O’Neill at the 2009 O’Neill Studio Retreat...

Volume 5, 2010
The Tyrone Family as Allegory for Pre-World War Two United States of America: Illusions of an Isolationist Nation... What They Really Saw: Using Archives to Reconstruct the Censored Performance of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude... O’Neill’s Existential Man, Distinguished or Extinguished...

Volume 6, 2011
Eugene O'Neill and His Settings Through the Eyes of An Indian... Interesting People on Christopher Street: The Selling of O’Neill and the Village... O’Neill’s Earth: Landscape in Bound East for Cardiff and Beyond... Eugene O’Neill Reconsidered: Trauma and the Tragic in The Emperor Jones... Elements of Medieval Morality Plays in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill... Experiencing the Community: Eugene O'Neill's Ambivalent Response to Bohemian Utopia... Willy Loman’s Long Night’s Journey Into Day... Primogeniture in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller... Short Plays, Small Spaces, Dreamy Kids... Glimpses of Bohemia: Conference Photos...

Volume 7, 2012
The Development of a Theatre Historian: An Interview with Glenda E. Gill... The Evil Particles of Desire in O’Neill’s Strange Interlude... Theatre Reviews...

Volume 8, 2013
Schizorevolution in O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape... Homoeroticism Greek Style: Passion and Celibacy in O’Neill’s Iceman... Theatre Reviews...

Volume 9, 2014
Staging Uprising: Eugene O’Neill’s The Dreamy Kid and Racial Anxieties... Breaking Boundaries: The Wooster Group’s Deconstruction of The Emperor Jones... Rage Against Miscegenation: The Controversy of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings... Blackface and Kabuki Theatre: The Implications of Masks in the Wooster Group’s Production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones... From Modernism to Post-Modernism: The Modes and Goals of Experimental Theater in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape... Theatre Reviews...

Volume 10, 2015
The Tragedy of the Train Wrecks: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and Reality TV... The Soil and the Sea: Eco-trajectory in Three of Eugene O’Neill’s Formative Works ... “They’s gold in the fields o’ California…. Dog’ll eat dog” – Insatiable Desire for Possession in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms ...

Volume 11, 2016
Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra: An Overview of Structural and Thematic Traits ...

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Major articles and reviews in the eOneill.com Library

Author Index
Major articles and reviews in the eOneill.com Library


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