Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (New York City, October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 in Boston) was an American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism pioneered by Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg into American drama. Generally, his plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into dillusionment and despair. Download high resolution version (534x640, 25 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (534x640, 25 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ... Chekhovs portrait by Osip Braz. ... Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828–May 23, 1906) was an extremely influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. ... August Strindberg Johan August Strindberg   listen? (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright and painter. ...

Although O'Neill was born in New York City, his early life was intimately connected to New London, Connecticut. His father was stage actor James O'Neill, who had owned property in New London before Eugene's birth. As an adult, O'Neill was employed by the New London Telegraph, and wrote his first plays while living there. (Connecticut College maintains an O'Neill archive and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Waterford fosters the development of new plays under his name.) In 1929 he moved to the Loire Valley of northwest France, where he lived in the Chateau du Plessis in St. Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire. He moved to Danville, California in 1937 and resided there until 1944. His home there, known as Tao House, is today the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site. View of New London from across the Thames River New London, Connecticut is a city in New London County, at the mouth of the Thames River and on the northeastern shore of Long Island Sound. ... James ONeill (November 15, 1849, Kilkenny, Ireland - August 10, 1920, New London, Connecticut) was an actor and the father of the American playwright Eugene ONeill. ... Connecticut College is a coeducational, private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. ... Waterford is a town located in New London County, Connecticut. ... Loire Valley (French Vallée de la Loire) is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. ... Indre-et-Loire is a département in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers. ... Danville is a city located in a part of Contra Costa County, California called the San Ramon Valley, United States. ... Tao House in winter The Eugene ONeill National Historic Site, located in Danville, California, preserves Tao House, the hillside home of Americas only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene ONeill, where he and his wife lived from 1937 to 1944. ...

O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His best-known plays include Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude (for which he again won the Pulitzer Prize), Mourning Becomes Electra, and his career's only comedy Ah, Wilderness!, a wistful re-imagining of his own youth as he wished it had been. In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946. The following year's A Moon for the Misbegotten failed, and would not gain recognition and placement among his best works until decades later. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Mourning Becomes Electra is the title for a trilogy of plays by Eugene ONeill, first performed in 1931. ... Ah, Wilderness! is a play by Eugene ONeill, and has the distinction of being the only true comedy he would ever write. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene ONeill, which was later made into a TV movie in 1960 as well as a big screen motion picture in 1973, both by the same name. ...

Carlotta Monterey was O'Neill's third wife. The aging dramatist renounced his daughter Oona for marrying Charlie Chaplin when she was only 18 years old (Chaplin was one year her father's junior). Chaplin in his costume as The Tramp Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was the most famous actor in early to mid Hollywood cinema, and later also a notable director. ...

In 1953, O'Neill died in a Sheraton Hotel, a building which is currently used by Boston University as Shelton Hall dormitory, and which bears a plaque dedicated to O'Neill. He was interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The Sheraton hotel chain is a member of Starwood Hotels. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... A typical American college dorm room A dormitory or dorm is a place to sleep. ... The Forest Hills Cemetery (1848) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (formerly in the city of Roxbury, now in the city of Boston) is an early suburban garden cemetery inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery. ... Jamaica Plain, more commonly known as JP, is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

In 1956, three years after O'Neill's death, his autobiographical masterpiece Long Day's Journey Into Night was published and produced on stage. His other posthoumously published plays were A Touch of the Poet (1958) and More Stately Mansions (1967). Long Days Journey into Night is a dramatic play in four acts by Eugene ONeill, generally considered to be his masterwork. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Works

Eugene O’Neill photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933

• Beyond the Horizon, 1920
• The Hairy Ape, 1922
• Anna Christie, 1922
• Desire Under the Elms, 1925
• Strange Interlude, 1928
• Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931
• Ah, Wilderness!, 1933
• The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, first performed 1946
• Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956
• A Moon for the Misbegotten, 1943
• A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
• More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967

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External links

• Eugene O'Neill eTexts at Project Gutenberg
• Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site