Vows, Veils, and Masks

Vows, Veils, and Masks
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781609389031
ISBN-13 : 1609389034
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Book Synopsis Vows, Veils, and Masks by : Beth Wynstra

Download or read book Vows, Veils, and Masks written by Beth Wynstra and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vows, Veils, and Masks offers a bold and timely approach to the plays of Eugene O’Neill with its attention to the engagements, weddings, and marriages so crucial to the tragic action in O’Neill’s works. Specifically, the book examines the culturally sanctioned traditions and gender roles that underscored marital life in the early twentieth century, and that still haunt and define love and partnership in the modern age. Weaving in artifacts like advice columns, advertisements, theatrical reviews, and even the lived experiences of the actors who brought O’Neill’s wife characters to life, Beth Wynstra points to new ways of seeing and empathizing with those who are betrothed and new possibilities for reading marriage in literary and dramatic works. She suggests that the various ways women were, and still are, expected to divert from their true ambitions, desires, and selves in the service of appropriate wifely behavior is a detrimental performance and one at the crux of O’Neill’s marital tragedies. This book invites more inclusive and nuanced ways of thinking about the choices married characters must make and the roles they play, both on and off the stage.


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