Eugene O’Neill: Quest for Reality in His Plays for lovers of the theatre and for students of drama, particularly twentieth century American drama, this work will provide thought-provoking material. The writer makes an in-depth study of Eugene O’Neill’s attempt to describe and account for the tension and sorrow of the American middle and lower classes. Dr. Tejpal Singh’s insights provide an interesting perspective on the American dramatist’s highly involved search for reality, a search for understanding the motivation behind repression, exploitation and perversion of human values in a land of opportunity. The writer concludes that O’Neill’s attempt to understand the human predicament is aesthetically convincing but that he is unable to set forth viable solutions to the human problems of America because he is himself influenced by the suffocating bourgeois environment in which his characters have their being.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tejpal Singh
Tejpal Singh is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at S.G.T.B. Khalsa (Eve.) college, University of Delhi, New Delhi. He was born in a worker's quarter of a sugar factory in Basti (U.P.) India in 1933. He himself experienced intnsely the ironies of life, whose web" is of a mingled yarn, goo and ill-together". He graduated from Punjab University Chandigarh in 1953 and postgraduated in Punjabi Literature from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1957. Subsequently, he postgraduated in English literature from Punjabi University, Patiala in 1968. He got his Ph.D. in English Litereture on american Drama from Meerut University, Meerut (U.P.) India in 1981. He has read articles on American Drama in Prestigious seminars including, All India English Teachers Conference, New Delhi and got them published. the present project was made possible by the Study Leave granted under the Teachers Benefit Scheme by the University Grants Commission (U.G.C.) New Delhi.
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