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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 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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Serie

Opere di Eugene O'Neill

Lunga giornata verso la notte (1956) 3,459 copie
Arriva l'uomo del ghiaccio (1946) 1,379 copie
Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape (1922) — Autore — 533 copie
Nine Plays (1932) 444 copie
Una luna per i bastardi (1952) — Autore — 385 copie
Il lutto di addice a Elettra (1931) — Autore — 348 copie
Complete Plays 1932-1943 (1988) 294 copie
Complete Plays 1913-1920 (1988) 288 copie
Complete Plays 1920-1931 (1988) 273 copie
Ah, Wilderness! (1933) 241 copie
The Emperor Jones (1921) 202 copie
Strano interludio (1928) 164 copie
A Touch of the Poet (1957) 162 copie
Desire Under the Elms (1925) 148 copie
Seven Plays of the Sea (1937) — Autore — 147 copie
Anna Christie (1921) 145 copie
The Hairy Ape (1922) 121 copie
Beyond the Horizon (1920) 105 copie
Six Short Plays (1951) 65 copie
More Stately Mansions (1764) 61 copie
Complete plays, 1913-1943 (1988) 47 copie
Ten "Lost" Plays (1600) 41 copie
Hughie (1959) 41 copie
Lazarus Laughed (1927) 38 copie
Marco Millions (1927) 32 copie
Long Day's Journey Into Night [1962 film] (1962) — Screenwriter — 29 copie
Dynamo (1929) 29 copie
Giorni senza fine (1934) 22 copie
The Straw (1921) 16 copie
The First Man (1922) 15 copie
Lost Plays (1950) 14 copie
Poems, 1912-1944 (1980) 13 copie
The Moon of the Caribbees (1919) 13 copie
Penguin Plays (1960) 13 copie
The Great God Brown (1926) 11 copie
Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1941) 10 copie
Drammi marini (1990) 10 copie
In the Zone (2014) 10 copie
Diff'rent (1921) 10 copie
Welded (1924) 9 copie
Collected Shorter Plays (2007) 8 copie
Plays (2017) 7 copie
Ile 7 copie
Before breakfast (1916) 6 copie
Where the Cross Is Made (2014) 6 copie
Meisterdramen (1966) 6 copie
Bound East for Cardiff (2005) 6 copie
The Rope (2014) 4 copie
Los Demonios (1987) 4 copie
Chris Christophersen (1982) 4 copie
Tomorrow (2014) 3 copie
Teatro 3 copie
The Man and His Plays (1947) 3 copie
The American spectator year book (1934) — A cura di — 3 copie
Gold (1920) 3 copie
Mourning Becomes Electra [1947 film] (2004) — Screenwriter — 2 copie
Chris Christophersen (1982) 2 copie
Plays 2 copie
Ah, Wilderness (2022) 2 copie
Théâtre complet 1 (1963) 2 copie
Servitude 2 copie
Abortion 2 copie
Meisterdramen 2 (1963) 1 copia
Meisterdramen I. (1960) 1 copia
Dias sem fim 1 copia
5 plays 1 copia
The Straw (2013) 1 copia
Three Plays (1949) 1 copia
Olje / Ile 1 copia
Teatr 1 copia
Plays by Eugene O'Neill (2013) 1 copia
Théâtre choisi (1963) 1 copia
Now I Ask You 1 copia
Days Without End (2010) 1 copia
The Fountain 1 copia
Los Demonios 1 copia
In The Zone; Ile (2005) 1 copia
Fermenti 1 copia
Plays 1 copia
Rijkemanshuis (1994) 1 copia
Fog 1 copia
Le opere 1 copia
Il castoro 1 copia
Négy dráma 1 copia
Drámák (1974) 1 copia
TRAANIA 1 copia
Homecoming 1 copia
Opere 1 copia
The Movie Man (2014) 1 copia
The Sniper (2014) 1 copia
The Long Voyage Home (1952) 1 copia
Beyond the Horizon (2015) 1 copia
Four Plays (2020) 1 copia
Two one-act plays (1980) 1 copia
Dr (1974) 1 copia
Quatro peças 1 copia
The Great God Brown (1926) 1 copia
Beyond the Horizon (2015) 1 copia

Opere correlate

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) — Collaboratore — 405 copie
Eight Great Tragedies (1957) — Collaboratore — 386 copie
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Collaboratore — 284 copie
Six Modern American Plays (1951) — Collaboratore — 272 copie
This Is My Best (1942) — Collaboratore — 186 copie
Sixteen Famous American Plays (1777) — Playwright — 185 copie
Nobel Prize Library: Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck (1971) — Autore — 185 copie
Masterpieces of the Drama (1966) — Collaboratore — 179 copie
Famous American Plays of the 1920s (1959) — Collaboratore — 139 copie
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Collaboratore — 110 copie
Four Modern Plays (First Series) (1944) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
Contemporary Drama: 15 Plays (1959) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951 (1952) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
The Theatre Guild Anthology (1936) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
Best American Plays: Fifth Series, 1957-1963 (1952) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Best American Plays: Fourth Series, 1951-1957 (1958) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Modern and Contemporary Drama (1958) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Ten Great One Act Plays (1968) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (1969) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
14 great plays (1977) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Anna Christie [1930 film] (2005) — Original play — 24 copie
World's Great Plays (1944) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Best American Plays: 6th Series, 1963-1967 (1971) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
New Girl in Town (1958) — Original play Anna Christie — 18 copie
Twelve Classic One-Act Plays (2010) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
The Long Voyage Home [1940 film] (1940) — Original play — 17 copie
Anathema!: Litanies of Negation (1928) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni17 copie
MacBeth and the Emperor Jones (1935) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
The Iceman Cometh [1973 film] (2003) — Original play — 8 copie
Five Modern Plays (1987) — Autore — 6 copie
Contemporary Drama American Plays II (1938) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Ah, Wilderness! [1976 TV episode] (2001) — Original play — 2 copie
American Plays (1935) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Iceman Cometh [1960 film] (1960) — Original play — 2 copie
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Five Modern Plays (1950) — Autore — 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)

Utenti

Recensioni

Questo dramma è "un pasticcio d'amore e di odio e di dolore e di maternità", come fa dire l'autore alla sua protagonista, quella Nina che è il deus ex machina della vicenda. E' una donna fatale intrappolata nella sua stessa morbosità e smania di possesso; non un personaggio positivo, ma una straordinaria creazione letteraria. Le sue controparti maschili sono tre, dalle personalità opposte ma accomunati da una passione totalizzante per Nina: carnale quella di Ned, sentimentale e convenzionale quella di Sam, platonica e quasi paterna quella di Charles. Sono i tre lati dell'amore, a cui Nina non vuole rinunciare e che farà di tutto per conservarsi sino alla fine, rovinando di fatto la loro vita e per riflesso anche la sua. [SPOILER] Solo quando suo figlio, prodotto e simulacro di questi tre amori, la lascerà sola pronto a farsi una vita lontano dal suo controllo Nina si sentirà finalmente in pace, svuotata ma libera di tornare ad un'esistenza semplice e quasi infantile. [FINE SPOILER]
E' un dramma che riesce ad essere allo stesso tempo figlio dei suoi tempi e molto attuale: la tecnica del flusso di coscienza è tipica del modernismo e le influenze delle teorie Freudiane (che avevano vasta eco in quel periodo) sono evidenti, tra complessi edipici e frustrazioni sessuali; eppure la sensibilità con cui sono tratteggiati i personaggi è vicina alla nostra, essi sfidano le convenzioni del tempo per diventare universali.
Il dualismo tra i pensieri intimi (esplicitati tramite lunghi monologhi interiori) ed i dialoghi veri e propri, per quanto straniante permette un'immersività quasi totale, perchè consente di scandagliare la psiche dei protagonisti, imparando a conoscerne mente e anima.
Un' opera profonda e articolata (ben nove atti che si snodano in quasi trent'anni), che ho letto e riletto scoprendone ogni volta qualche lato nuovo: la consiglio a tutti gli amanti del buon teatro.
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Lilirose_ | 6 altre recensioni | May 10, 2020 |
Versione italiana di Amleto Micozzi: "L'estro del Poeta"
 
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gianoulinetti | 1 altra recensione | Dec 2, 2013 |
Anna Christie è una ex prostituta che si innamora di un marinaio che lavora con il padre. Non sa però come svelare ad entrambi il suo difficile passato...
 
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gianoulinetti | 3 altre recensioni | Oct 22, 2013 |
Oltre l'orizzonte, che conquistò il premio Pulitzer nel 1920, fu un dramma ambientato nei campi agricoli e nella campagna, nel quale l'autore mise in evidenze le passioni primitive ed i sentimenti. In questa opera O'Neill cercò un filo conduttore con gli eroi del teatro greco ed orientale, e lo intravide nella difficoltà che i protagonisti incontrano nella lotta per la sopravvivenza.
 
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gianoulinetti | Oct 21, 2013 |

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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
3.8
Recensioni
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ISBN
438
Lingue
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