Background
Travis Bogard was born on January 25, 1918 in San Francisco, California, United States.
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The plays included in this book are: Ah, Wilderness!, A Touch of the Poet, Hughie, A Moon for the Misbegotten
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1967
(Twenty-two writings by Bogard on Eugene and Carlotta, the...)
Twenty-two writings by Bogard on Eugene and Carlotta, the plays, and the wider context, with a letter from Jason Robards.
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Eugene O'Neill, one of America's most gifted and prolific playwrights, wrote more than 60 plays between 1914 and 1941, a level of creativity paralleled in modern times only by Bernard Shaw. The progress of his art from crude, one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his later years is a story as dramatic and compelling as that of his tortured personal history. Combining the two, Professor Bogard traces the contours of O'Neill's life in his art. By discussing, in their approximate order of composition, the published and unpublished works, Bogard illuminates not only the plays, but also the literary, aesthetic, and historical influences on the playwright's development. For the revised edition of this insightful, meticulously written work, the author has added new and unpublished material on A Tale of Possessors, Self-dispossessed, a cycle of nine plays written by O'Neill during the 1930s and '40s, only one of which he readied for the stage. Among the plays in this cycle that have been posthumously produced are More Stately Mansions (New York, 1967) and A Touch of the Poet (New York, 1958).
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Travis Bogard was born on January 25, 1918 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Bogard received his bachelor's degree in 1939 and his master's degree in English in 1940 from UC Berkeley. He obtained philosophy's degree in Princeton University in 1948.
Bogard served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1948, first teaching in the English department. In 1958, he was appointed head and professor to the newly created Department of Dramatic Art. During his tenure, he also served as chair of that department, producing all of the university's theater events and designing and developing the first doctor's program in dramatic art offered by the campus.
Bogard was known on campus as a producer of the Old Chestnut Drama Guild, a semi-professional summer theater group that performed plays for five seasons in the mid- to late- 1970s.
Bogard’s favorite subject both in teaching and writing was O’Neill.
He retired in 1987, dedicating the later years of his life to his writings and to Tao House (O’Neill’s former California home).
His works on the topic as an editor include The Later Plays of Eugene O’Neill (1967), Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1972), and he also edited such works with Jackson R. Byer: Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill, a series of correspondence between the famed playwright and Kenneth Macgowan. Bogard also wrote The Tragic Satire of John Webster (1957), Modern Drama: Essays in Criticism (1965), and he contributed to Revels History of Drama in English (1973).
(Eugene O'Neill, one of America's most gifted and prolific...)
(Twenty-two writings by Bogard on Eugene and Carlotta, the...)
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1967
Bogard married Jane, who died in 1988. He is survived by his son, John George Bogard and his daughter, Sara Snow Bogard.
