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When Eugene O’Neill began writing for the stage early in the 20th century, American theatre was dominated by vaudeville and romantic melodramas. Influenced by Strindberg, Ibsen, and other European playwrights, O’Neill vowed to create a theatre in America, stripped of false sentimentality, which would explore the deepest stirrings of the ...
Feb 2, 2004 · Born in a hotel on Broadway in 1888, Eugene O’Neill was the son of Ella Quinlan and the actor James O’Neill. Eugene spent the first seven years of his life touring with his father’s theater ...
Eugene O’Neill - Pulitzer Prize, American Playwright, Nobel Laureate: O’Neill’s capacity for and commitment to work were staggering. Between 1920 and 1943 he completed 20 long plays—several of them double and triple length—and a number of shorter ones. He wrote and rewrote many of his manuscripts half a dozen times before he was satisfied, and he filled shelves of notebooks with ...
It recommended Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizonfor the prize, and the Pulitzer committee gave it to him. For O’Neill, it was the first of four Pulitzer Prizes. The others came in 1922 (Anna Christie), 1928 (Strange Interlude) and 1957 (Long Day’s Journey into Night). The 1920 jurors were Hamlin Garland, a New York writer and the ...
Mar 20, 2018 · March 20, 2018. Eugene O’Neill doesn’t let us hide from our demons. They are at the core of all his writing. Photo by Edward Steichen / Condé Nast / Getty. In seventh grade, my English ...
James O’Neill (born November 15, 1849, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland—died August 10, 1920, New London, Connecticut, U.S.) was an Irish-born American actor, now chiefly remembered for his most famous role, the Count of Monte Cristo, and as the father of playwright Eugene O’Neill. James O’Neill made his stage debut as a supernumerary ...
Eugene O'Neill drew on the tragic events of his dysfunctional family's life to produce some of the most powerful dramas of the American theater. O'Neill's difficulties began almost from the time ...
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