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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Eugene O'Neill
Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond the Horizon (1998) 217 copie
Ah, wilderness! : The hairy ape ; All God's chillun got wings ; The emperor Jones ; Desire under the elms (1960) 26 copie
Ah, wilderness! And two other plays: All God's chillun got wings, and Beyond the horizon (1964) 24 copie
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill VOLUME 1: Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms, Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, The… (1948) 20 copie
The Emperor Jones with a Study Guide for the Screen Version of the Play (Students' Edition) (Appleton Modern… (1934) 14 copie
The Unfinished Plays: Notes for the Visit of Malatesta, the Last Conquest, Blind Alley Guy (1988) 8 copie
Four Plays: Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Touch of the Poet (1978) 7 copie
Ile 7 copie
Anna Christie / Beyond the Horizon / Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape / Days Without End (2004) 5 copie
Selected Plays Of Eugene O'Neill 4 copie
Complete Works of Eugene O'Neill vol I}signed by O'Neill Ltd ed 1163/2000 vol I only of a 2 vik set (1924) 3 copie
Teatro 3 copie
Three American Plays 3 copie
Le opere: La luna dei Caraibi, Il lungo viaggio di ritorno, L'imperatore Jones, Anna Christie, Strano interludio, Il… (1978) 3 copie
Teatro escogido 3 copie
I tjocka på Atlanten 2 copie
Nine Plays By Eugene O'neil 2 copie
The plays of Eugene O'Neill 1 2 copie
Plays 2 copie
The Long Voyage Home, Seven Plays Of The Sea (1946) Random House Hardcover Eugene O'Neill (1946) 2 copie
Ah, Wilderness and Other Plays 2 copie
The Hairy Ape, and other plays 2 copie
Dramen, Fast ein Poet, Trauer muß Elektra tragen, Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht (1960) 2 copie
Servitude 2 copie
Abortion 2 copie
Seven contemporary plays 2 copie
Última voluntad y testamento de un perro distinguidísimo / Eugene O´Neill ; ilustraciones de Alessandra Genualdo ;… (2019) 1 copia
Bread and Butter 1 copia
سبع مسرحيات 1 copia
Teatro escogido ... 1 copia
Thirst, and other one act plays 1 copia
Desire Under The Elms 1 copia
Electra e os fantasmas. Trilogia 1 copia
LOST PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL 1 copia
Teatro Volume primo 1 copia
Dias sem fim 1 copia
Hughie (Playbill) [Vol 1 No 12] 1 copia
Eugene O'Neill: Nine Plays 1 copia
The Personal Equation 1 copia
The Iceman Cometh 1 copia
Long day's journey into night 1 copia
5 plays 1 copia
Complete Plays: 1920-1931 1 copia
American Dream 1 copia
O'Neill drámák 1. 1 copia
Olje / Ile 1 copia
Teatr 1 copia
Quatro Peças - - Volume 35 1 copia
Mattia Pascal und Einer, keiner, hunderttausend - Pirandello, 1934/ Meisterdramen - O'Neill, 1936/ Jean Barois -… (1984) 1 copia
De l'Huile, pièce en 1 acte d'O'Neill. (Coll Education et Théâtre), N° 37 ; Théâtre de répertoire 1 copia
Electra Enlutada 1 copia
O'Neill drámák 2. 1 copia
Now I Ask You 1 copia
The Iceman Cometh 1 copia
Chris Christopherson 1 copia
The Fountain 1 copia
Gold: A Play in Four Acts (1920) 1 copia
Ah, Wilderness and Other Plays 1 copia
The days of Eugene O'Neil 1 copia
Coup de théâtre 1 copia
Los Demonios 1 copia
Lang dags ferd mot natt 1 copia
The Eugene O’Neill Collection 1 copia
The Dreamy Kid 1 copia
Oltre l'orizzonte 1 copia
Fermenti 1 copia
Plays 1 copia
Nueve dramas; Vol. I 1 copia
Fog 1 copia
Collected Plays 1 copia
Complete Works Vol. 2 1 copia
Le opere 1 copia
Il castoro 1 copia
Dvi amerikiečių pjesės 1 copia
Négy dráma 1 copia
EUGENE O'NEILL PLAYS (4): Moon for the Misbegotten, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, Long Day's… (1973) 1 copia
Amerikanisches Theater 1 copia
TRAANIA 1 copia
VAARAVYÖHYKKEESSÄ 1 copia
Théâtre choisi 1 copia
Anna Christie [Souvenir Program] 1 copia
I capolavori di Eugene ONeill 1 copia
Homecoming 1 copia
Opere 1 copia
A Wife For A Life 1 copia
Tocht naar het duister 1 copia
Lunga giornata verso la notte 1 copia
Electra e os fantasmas: trilogia 1 copia
Più grandi dimore 1 copia
Where The Cross Is Made: "My motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.” (2014) 1 copia
The Emperor Jones & The Straw 1 copia
Ah, wilderness!: And two other plays: All God's chillun got wings, and Beyond the horizon (The Modern library,… (1955) 1 copia
Desejo Sob os Ulmeiros 1 copia
Trauer muss Elektra tragen 1 copia
Experimental O'Neill: The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and The S.S. Glencairn One-Act Plays (2016) 1 copia
Antes del desayuno 1 copia
Quatro peças 1 copia
Pod karribbským měsícem 1 copia
Premio nobel de literatura 1936 1 copia
Kariibide kuu : [näidendid] 1 copia
عشر مسرحيات مفقودة 1 copia
Gold; a play in four acts 1 copia
Opere correlate
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Collaboratore — 109 copie
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 copie
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November, 1932) — A cura di — 3 copie
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 6 — A cura di — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 3 — A cura di — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 2 (December, 1932) — A cura di — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 4 — A cura di — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 5 — A cura di — 1 copia
Nobel Prize Library Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 7 — A cura di — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Nome legale
- O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
- Data di nascita
- 1888-10-16
- Data di morte
- 1953-11-27
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa della morte
- cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration
- Luogo di residenza
- 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 - Istruzione
- St. Aloysius Academy for Boys
Princeton University
Harvard University - Attività lavorative
- playwright
poet
reporter
actor
assistant stage manager
prospector (mostra tutto 9)
sailor
secretary
editor - Relazioni
- O'Neill, Eugene, Jr. (son)
O'Neill, Shane (son)
Boulton, Agnes (wife)
Bryant, Louise (girlfriend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
Strindberg, August (friend) (mostra tutto 8)
Reed, John (friend)
Chaplin, Geraldine (grand daughter) - Organizzazioni
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
The Lambs
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Provincetown Players (co-manager)
New London Telegraph (reporter) (mostra tutto 8)
Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World
American Spectator (associate editor and contributor) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 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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METAfiction (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 346
- Opere correlate
- 58
- Utenti
- 11,798
- Popolarità
- #1,994
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 116
- ISBN
- 438
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 24
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