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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Eugene O'Neill

Lång dags färd mot natt (1956) 3,459 exemplar
Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape (1922) — Författare — 532 exemplar
Nine Plays (1932) 445 exemplar
En måne för de olycksfödda (1952) — Författare — 385 exemplar
Sorgen kläder Elektra : en trilogi (1931) — Författare — 347 exemplar
Complete Plays 1932-1943 (1988) 294 exemplar
Complete Plays 1913-1920 (1988) 288 exemplar
Complete Plays 1920-1931 (1988) 273 exemplar
Ah, Wilderness! (1933) 241 exemplar
Kejsar Jones (1921) 202 exemplar
Sällsamt mellanspel (1928) 164 exemplar
A Touch of the Poet (1957) 162 exemplar
Blodet ropar under almarna (1925) 148 exemplar
Seven Plays of the Sea (1937) — Författare — 145 exemplar
Anna Christie (1921) 145 exemplar
The Hairy Ape (1922) 121 exemplar
Bortom horisonten (1920) 105 exemplar
Later Plays Of Eugene O'Neill (1967) 99 exemplar
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1926) 80 exemplar
Six Short Plays (1951) 65 exemplar
More Stately Mansions (1764) 61 exemplar
The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays (Dover Thrift Editions) (2016) — Författare — 53 exemplar
Complete plays, 1913-1943 (1988) 47 exemplar
Ten "Lost" Plays (1600) 41 exemplar
Hughie (1959) 41 exemplar
Lazarus Laughed (1927) 38 exemplar
Marco Millions (1927) 32 exemplar
Long Day's Journey Into Night [1962 film] (1962) — Screenwriter — 29 exemplar
Dynamo (1929) 29 exemplar
Exorcism: A Play in One Act (2012) 23 exemplar
Days Without End (1934) 22 exemplar
The Straw (1921) 16 exemplar
The First Man (1922) 15 exemplar
Lost Plays (1950) 14 exemplar
The Moon of the Caribbees (1919) 13 exemplar
Poems, 1912-1944 (1980) 13 exemplar
Penguin Plays (1960) 13 exemplar
The Great God Brown (1926) 11 exemplar
Diff'rent (1921) 10 exemplar
Drammi marini (1990) 10 exemplar
Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1941) 10 exemplar
In the Zone (2014) 10 exemplar
Hopsvetsade : drama (1924) 9 exemplar
All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) 8 exemplar
Collected Shorter Plays (2007) 8 exemplar
Ile 7 exemplar
Plays (2017) 7 exemplar
Meisterdramen (1966) 6 exemplar
Before breakfast (1916) 6 exemplar
Where the Cross Is Made (2014) 6 exemplar
Bound East for Cardiff (2005) 6 exemplar
Los Demonios (1987) 4 exemplar
Chris Christophersen (1982) 4 exemplar
The Rope (2014) 4 exemplar
Gold (1920) 3 exemplar
Teatro escogido 3 exemplar
The Man and His Plays (1947) 3 exemplar
Tomorrow (2014) 3 exemplar
The American spectator year book (1934) — Redaktör — 3 exemplar
Teatro 3 exemplar
Mourning Becomes Electra [1947 film] (2004) — Screenwriter — 2 exemplar
Plays 2 exemplar
Ah, Wilderness (2022) 2 exemplar
Chris Christophersen (1982) 2 exemplar
Théâtre complet 1 (1963) 2 exemplar
Servitude 2 exemplar
Abortion 2 exemplar
Meisterdramen I. (1960) 1 exemplar
Plays by Eugene O'Neill (2013) 1 exemplar
Meisterdramen 2 (1963) 1 exemplar
Dias sem fim 1 exemplar
Théâtre choisi (1963) 1 exemplar
Teatr 1 exemplar
Los Demonios 1 exemplar
Three Plays (1949) 1 exemplar
The Straw (2013) 1 exemplar
Coup de théâtre 1 exemplar
The Iceman Cometh 1 exemplar
5 plays 1 exemplar
Electra Enlutada 1 exemplar
Olje / Ile 1 exemplar
Bread and Butter 1 exemplar
Now I Ask You 1 exemplar
Lost Plays of Eugene O'Neill (1958) 1 exemplar
Days Without End (2010) 1 exemplar
The Fountain 1 exemplar
American Dream 1 exemplar
The Iceman Cometh 1 exemplar
The Dreamy Kid 1 exemplar
In The Zone; Ile (2005) 1 exemplar
Oltre l'orizzonte 1 exemplar
Fermenti 1 exemplar
Plays 1 exemplar
Rijkemanshuis (1994) 1 exemplar
Fog 1 exemplar
Collected Plays 1 exemplar
Le opere 1 exemplar
Il castoro 1 exemplar
Négy dráma 1 exemplar
Drámák (1974) 1 exemplar
TRAANIA 1 exemplar
Théâtre choisi 1 exemplar
Homecoming 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
The Movie Man (2014) 1 exemplar
The Sniper (2014) 1 exemplar
A Wife For A Life 1 exemplar
Four Plays (2020) 1 exemplar
The Long Voyage Home (1952) 1 exemplar
Più grandi dimore 1 exemplar
Beyond the Horizon (2015) 1 exemplar
Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill (2009) 1 exemplar
The Great God Brown (1926) 1 exemplar
Two one-act plays (1980) 1 exemplar
Antes del desayuno 1 exemplar
Dr (1974) 1 exemplar
Quatro peças 1 exemplar
Beyond the Horizon (2015) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 404 exemplar
Eight Great Tragedies (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 385 exemplar
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 283 exemplar
Six Modern American Plays (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 272 exemplar
This Is My Best (1942) — Bidragsgivare — 186 exemplar
Nobel Prize Library: Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck (1971) — Författare — 185 exemplar
Sixteen Famous American Plays (1777) — Playwright — 182 exemplar
Masterpieces of the Drama (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 178 exemplar
Famous American Plays of the 1920s (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 139 exemplar
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Bidragsgivare — 110 exemplar
Four Modern Plays (First Series) (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 93 exemplar
Contemporary Drama: 15 Plays (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951 (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
The Theatre Guild Anthology (1936) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Best American Plays: Fifth Series, 1957-1963 (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Modern and Contemporary Drama (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Best American Plays: Fourth Series, 1951-1957 (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Ten Great One Act Plays (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar
14 great plays (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar
Anna Christie [1930 film] (2005) — Original play — 24 exemplar
Nine Great Plays: From Aeschylus to Eliot (Revised Edition) (1950) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
World's Great Plays (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Best American Plays: 6th Series, 1963-1967 (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
New Girl in Town (1958) — Original play Anna Christie — 18 exemplar
Anathema!: Litanies of Negation (1928) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor17 exemplar
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
The Long Voyage Home [1940 film] (1940) — Original play — 17 exemplar
Twelve Classic One-Act Plays (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Contemporary Drama: Nine Plays, American, English, European, (1941) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
MacBeth and the Emperor Jones (1935) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Iceman Cometh [1973 film] (2003) — Original play — 8 exemplar
Five Modern Plays (1987) — Författare — 6 exemplar
Contemporary Drama American Plays II (1938) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
American Plays (1935) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Ah, Wilderness! [1976 TV episode] (2001) — Original play — 2 exemplar
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
The Iceman Cometh [1960 film] (1960) — Original play — 2 exemplar
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Five Modern Plays (1950) — Författare — 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
O'Neill, Eugene
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
Födelsedag
1888-10-16
Avled
1953-11-27
Begravningsplats
Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
New York, New York, USA
Dödsort
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dödsorsak
cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration
Bostadsorter
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
Utbildning
St. Aloysius Academy for Boys
Princeton University
Harvard University
Yrken
playwright
poet
reporter
actor
assistant stage manager
prospector (visa alla 9)
sailor
secretary
editor
Relationer
O'Neill, Eugene, Jr. (son)
O'Neill, Shane (son)
Boulton, Agnes (wife)
Bryant, Louise (girlfriend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
Strindberg, August (friend) (visa alla 8)
Reed, John (friend)
Chaplin, Geraldine (grand daughter)
Organisationer
National Institute of Arts and Letters
The Lambs
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Provincetown Players (co-manager)
New London Telegraph (reporter) (visa alla 8)
Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World
American Spectator (associate editor and contributor)
Priser och utmärkelser
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) (visa alla 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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Verk
344
Även av
57
Medlemmar
11,791
Popularitet
#1,997
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
115
ISBN
438
Språk
17
Favoritmärkt
24

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