"There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie exemplifies the dramatist’s concern with the theme of absence. In this late one-act play, New York remains at first invisible and the stage constitutes an empty space. The city is characterized by emptiness and anonymity. The scenery of the play only emphasizes the vacuity of...
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| description | Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie exemplifies the dramatist’s concern with the theme of absence. In this late one-act play, New York remains at first invisible and the stage constitutes an empty space. The city is characterized by emptiness and anonymity. The scenery of the play only emphasizes the vacuity of the two characters’ existence. Yet the city eventually asserts itself on stage through the long, elegiac monologue of Erie Smith, a gambler mourning for a deceased night clerk. His vivid depiction of Broadway evokes a long-lost urban lifestyle. New York is also brought to life thanks to a series of echoes and sounds that reverberate on stage and draw the characters’ attention on the off-stage. Language and specifically rumours appear as both destroying forces and life-giving sources of illusion. |
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| spellingShingle | Aurélie Sanchez "There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill Anglophonia théâtre américain Eugene O’Neill absence écho rumeur New York |
| title | "There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill |
| title_full | "There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill |
| title_fullStr | "There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill |
| title_full_unstemmed | "There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill |
| title_short | "There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill |
| title_sort | there d always be something left im materialite de la ville dans hughie de eugene o neill |
| topic | théâtre américain Eugene O’Neill absence écho rumeur New York |
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