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Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953)

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Eugene O'Neill was born in New York City on October 16, 1888, the son of popular actors James O'Neill and Ellen Quinlan. As a young child, he frequently went on tour with his father and later attended a Catholic boarding school and a private preparatory school. He entered Princeton University but näytä lisää stayed for only a year. He took a variety of jobs, including prospecting for gold, shipping out as a merchant sailor, joining his father on the stage, and writing for newspapers. In 1912, he was hospitalized for tuberculosis and emotional exhaustion. While recovering, he read a great deal of dramatic literature and, after his release from the sanitarium, began writing plays. O'Neill got his theatrical start with a group known as the Provincetown Players, a company of actors, writers, and other theatrical newcomers, many of whom went on to achieve commercial and critical success. His first plays were one-act works for this group, works that combined realism with experimental forms. O'Neill's first commercial successes, Beyond the Horizon (1920) and Anna Christie (1921) were traditional realistic plays. Anna Christie is still frequently performed. It is the story of a young woman, Anna, whose hard life has led her to become a prostitute. Anna comes to live with her long-lost father, who is unaware of her past, and she falls in love with a sailor, who is also unaware. When Anna finds the two men fighting over her as though she were property, she is so angry and disgusted that she insists on telling them the truth. The man she loves rejects her at first, but then later returns to marry her. Soon O'Neill began to experiment more, and over the next 12 years used a wide variety of unusual techniques, settings, and dramatic devices. It is no exaggeration to say that, virtually on his own, O'Neill created a tradition of serious American theater. His influence on the playwrights who followed him has been enormous, and much of what is taken today for granted in modern American theater originated with O'Neill. A major legacy has been the nine plays he wrote between 1924 and 1931, tragedies that made heavy use of the new Freudian psychology just coming into fashion. His one comedy, Ah, Wilderness (1933), was the basis for the musical comedy, Oklahoma!, itself a groundbreaking event in American theater. O'Neill later began to write the intense, brooding, and highly autobiographical plays that are now considered to his best work. The Iceman Cometh (1946) is set in a bar in Manhattan's Bowery, or skid-row district. In the course of the play, a group of apparently happy men are forced to recognize the true emptiness of their lives. In A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956), O'Neill examines his own family and their tormented lives, a subject he continues in A Moon for the Misbegotten (1957). O'Neill's work was highly honored. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936 and Pulitzer Prizes for Anna Christie, Beyond the Horizon, Strange Interlude (1928), and A Long Day's Journey Into Night, which also received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. O'Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. He was also born in a hotel room in Times Square, NYC. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Pitkän päivän matka yöhön (1956) 3,416 kappaletta
The Iceman Cometh (1946) 1,348 kappaletta
Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape (1922) — Tekijä — 520 kappaletta
Nine Plays (1932) 441 kappaletta
A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952) — Tekijä — 381 kappaletta
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) — Tekijä — 341 kappaletta
Complete Plays 1932-1943 (1988) 291 kappaletta
Complete Plays 1913-1920 (1988) 279 kappaletta
Complete Plays 1920-1931 (1988) 272 kappaletta
Ah, Wilderness! (1933) 235 kappaletta
The Emperor Jones (1921) 196 kappaletta
Strange Interlude (1928) 162 kappaletta
A Touch of the Poet (1957) 158 kappaletta
Desire Under the Elms (1925) 146 kappaletta
Anna Christie (1921) 141 kappaletta
Seven Plays of the Sea (1937) — Tekijä — 138 kappaletta
Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1777) 133 kappaletta
The Hairy Ape (1922) 120 kappaletta
Beyond the Horizon (1920) 103 kappaletta
Later Plays Of Eugene O'Neill (1967) 94 kappaletta
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1926) 79 kappaletta
Six Short Plays (1951) 63 kappaletta
More Stately Mansions (1764) 60 kappaletta
Complete plays, 1913-1943 (1988) 46 kappaletta
Hughie (1959) 41 kappaletta
Ten "Lost" Plays (1600) 40 kappaletta
Lazarus Laughed (1927) 35 kappaletta
Plays of Eugene O'Neill (Vol. 2) (1948) 30 kappaletta
Marco Millions (1927) 30 kappaletta
Long Day's Journey Into Night [1962 film] (1962) — Screenwriter — 28 kappaletta
Dynamo (1929) 28 kappaletta
Exorcism: A Play in One Act (2012) 23 kappaletta
Days Without End (1934) 21 kappaletta
Lost Plays (1950) 14 kappaletta
The First Man (1922) 13 kappaletta
Poems, 1912-1944 (1980) 13 kappaletta
Penguin Plays (1960) 13 kappaletta
The Straw (1921) 13 kappaletta
The Moon of the Caribbees (1919) 12 kappaletta
The Great God Brown (1926) 10 kappaletta
In the Zone (2014) 10 kappaletta
Drammi marini (1990) 10 kappaletta
Diff'rent (1921) 9 kappaletta
Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1941) 9 kappaletta
Collected Shorter Plays (2007) 8 kappaletta
Welded (1924) 8 kappaletta
Plays (2017) 7 kappaletta
Ile 7 kappaletta
Bound East for Cardiff (2005) 6 kappaletta
Meisterdramen (1966) 6 kappaletta
All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) 6 kappaletta
THE CALMS OF CAPRICORN. A Play. (1982) 6 kappaletta
Where the Cross Is Made (2014) 6 kappaletta
Before breakfast (1916) 5 kappaletta
Thirst: and other one act plays (1914) 5 kappaletta
The Emperor Jones ; The straw (2011) 4 kappaletta
The Rope (2014) 4 kappaletta
Los Demonios (1987) 4 kappaletta
Chris Christophersen (1982) 4 kappaletta
The American spectator year book (1934) — Toimittaja — 3 kappaletta
The Man and His Plays (1947) 3 kappaletta
Teatro escogido 3 kappaletta
Three American Plays 3 kappaletta
Teatro 3 kappaletta
Mourning Becomes Electra [1947 film] (2004) — Screenwriter — 2 kappaletta
Plays 2 kappaletta
Tomorrow (2014) 2 kappaletta
Théâtre complet 1 (1963) 2 kappaletta
Piedade Cruel - Colecao em Cena (2010) 2 kappaletta
Chris Christophersen (1982) 2 kappaletta
Abortion 2 kappaletta
I tjocka på Atlanten 2 kappaletta
Gold (1920) 2 kappaletta
Plays by Eugene O'Neill (2013) 1 kappale
Dias sem fim 1 kappale
Teatr 1 kappale
Beyond the Horizon (2015) 1 kappale
Four Plays (2020) 1 kappale
Théâtre choisi (1963) 1 kappale
The Straw (2013) 1 kappale
Three Plays (1949) 1 kappale
Los Demonios 1 kappale
Ah, Wilderness 1 kappale
5 plays 1 kappale
Electra Enlutada 1 kappale
Olje / Ile 1 kappale
American Dream 1 kappale
Théâtre choisi 1 kappale
Fermenti 1 kappale
In The Zone; Ile (2005) 1 kappale
Plays 1 kappale
Rijkemanshuis (1994) 1 kappale
Fog 1 kappale
The Dreamy Kid 1 kappale
Collected Plays 1 kappale
TRAANIA 1 kappale
Homecoming 1 kappale
Opere 1 kappale
The Movie Man (2014) 1 kappale
The Sniper (2014) 1 kappale
Servitude 1 kappale
Le opere 1 kappale
The Long Voyage Home (1952) 1 kappale
Beyond the Horizon (2015) 1 kappale
The Great God Brown (1926) 1 kappale
Il castoro 1 kappale
Négy dráma 1 kappale
Drámák (1974) 1 kappale
Two one-act plays (1980) 1 kappale
Dr (1974) 1 kappale
Quatro peças 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) — Avustaja — 393 kappaletta
Eight Great Tragedies (1957) — Avustaja — 382 kappaletta
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta
Six Modern American Plays (1951) — Avustaja — 264 kappaletta
Nobel Prize Library: Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck (1971) — Tekijä — 182 kappaletta
This Is My Best (1942) — Avustaja — 180 kappaletta
Sixteen Famous American Plays (1777) — Playwright — 177 kappaletta
Masterpieces of the Drama (1966) — Avustaja — 173 kappaletta
Famous American Plays of the 1920s (1959) — Avustaja — 135 kappaletta
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Avustaja — 106 kappaletta
Four Modern Plays (First Series) (1944) — Avustaja — 89 kappaletta
Contemporary Drama: 15 Plays (1959) — Avustaja — 68 kappaletta
Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951 (1952) — Avustaja — 66 kappaletta
The Theatre Guild Anthology (1936) — Avustaja — 61 kappaletta
Modern and Contemporary Drama (1958) — Avustaja — 43 kappaletta
Best American Plays: Fifth Series, 1957-1963 (1952) — Avustaja — 42 kappaletta
Best American Plays: Fourth Series, 1951-1957 (1958) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Avustaja — 38 kappaletta
Ten Great One Act Plays (1968) — Avustaja — 35 kappaletta
14 great plays (1977) — Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (1969) — Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
Anna Christie [1930 film] (2005) — Original play — 23 kappaletta
World's Great Plays (1944) — Avustaja — 22 kappaletta
Best American Plays: 6th Series, 1963-1967 (1971) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
New Girl in Town (1958) — Original play Anna Christie — 18 kappaletta
The Long Voyage Home [1940 film] (1940) — Original play — 17 kappaletta
Twelve Classic One-Act Plays (2010) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Anathema!: Litanies of Negation (1928) — Johdanto, eräät painokset16 kappaletta
MacBeth and the Emperor Jones (1935) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
The Iceman Cometh [1973 film] (2003) — Original play — 8 kappaletta
Five Modern Plays (1987) — Tekijä — 6 kappaletta
Contemporary Drama American Plays II (1938) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
American Plays (1935) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Ah, Wilderness! [1976 TV episode] (2001) — Original play — 2 kappaletta
The Iceman Cometh [1960 film] (1960) — Original play — 2 kappaletta
Five Modern Plays (1950) — Tekijä — 1 kappale
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Avustaja — 1 kappale

Merkitty avainsanalla

Yleistieto

Kanoninen nimi
O'Neill, Eugene
Virallinen nimi
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
Syntymäaika
1888-10-16
Kuolinaika
1953-11-27
Hautapaikka
Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
New York, New York, USA
Kuolinpaikka
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kuolinsyy
cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration
Asuinpaikat
Monte Cristo Cottage, New London, Connecticut, USA
Château du Plessis, St. Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire, France
Casa Genotta, Sea Island, Georgia, USA
Tao House, Danville, California, USA
Koulutus
St. Aloysius Academy for Boys
Princeton University
Harvard University
Ammatit
playwright
poet
reporter
actor
assistant stage manager
prospector (näytä kaikki 9)
sailor
secretary
editor
Suhteet
O'Neill, Eugene, Jr. (son)
O'Neill, Shane (son)
Boulton, Agnes (wife)
Bryant, Louise (girlfriend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
Strindberg, August (friend) (näytä kaikki 8)
Reed, John (friend)
Chaplin, Geraldine (grand daughter)
Organisaatiot
National Institute of Arts and Letters
The Lambs
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Provincetown Players (co-manager)
New London Telegraph (reporter) (näytä kaikki 8)
Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World
American Spectator (associate editor and contributor)
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 1936)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1923)
American Philosophical Society (1935)
American Theater Hall of Fame (1972)
Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1923)
Pulitzer Prize (1920, 1922, 1928, 1957) (näytä kaikki 14)
Tony Award (1957)
Irish Academy of Letters (1932)
National Historic Landmark (Monte Cristo Cottage)(1971)
Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site (Tao House)(1976)
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York (1959)
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut (1964)
Litt.D., Yale University (1923)
United States Postal Service stamp (1967)

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Kirja-arvosteluja

O'Neill's brilliance and his place as America's foremost playwright locks into place, if it hadn't already, with this third volume of plays from the last decade of his writing life. Three of the plays presented here (The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten) are utter masterpieces, works of art so powerful that they rank among the great accomplishments in English letters. Two other plays (Ah, Wilderness! and A Touch of the Poet) are great plays. A third (More Stately Mansions) is the one great failure of O'Neill's career, I believe, an endless epic back-and-forth set of soulful arguments that could have been (and sometimes was) better played in an infinitely shorter play. But it's my belief that no American playwright has ever come within miles of capturing O'Neill's ability to see the pain at the heart of human beings and to encapsulate so perfectly the pity which the lost heart yearns for and requires.… (lisätietoja)
 
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jumblejim | Aug 26, 2023 |
It's good at first, but by Act 3 all the themes have been developed and the rest of the play is simply digging in further to the already-established ruts.

This might be a play that really suffers in the reading as opposed to the performance.
 
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blueskygreentrees | 35 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 30, 2023 |
I don't know why I was surprised by the abject misery. Themes a little dated, but a good read.
 
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Mcdede | Jul 19, 2023 |
I don't think I would have liked this play 20 years ago, but I really enjoyed it. The skill and ideas are amazing. I don't think the story was the greatest, but enough to keep me interested in what what going to happen. I can see why this work is so revered.
 
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Mcdede | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 19, 2023 |

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