William Davies King

William Davies King

Text Restoration, The Count of Monte Cristo

William Davies King is professor of theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of the Eugene O’Neill Review, a biannual journal of O’Neill studies, and the first-ever critical edition of O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, published by Yale University Press in 2014. His critical/biographical study of O’Neill and his second wife, Agnes Boulton, Another Part of a Long Story, was published in 2010, and he has since then published a critical edition of Boulton’s memoir, Part of a Long Story. His first book, Henry Irving’s “Waterloo”: Theatrical Engagements with Late-Victorian Culture and History, won the Joe A. Callaway Prize, and his memoir about collecting, Collections of Nothing, was named one of Amazon’s best books of 2008. He is working on a critical edition of O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and an extended e-book version of Long Day’s Journey. Examples of his artwork in the form of what he calls “bibliolages” can be found at williamdaviesking.com.