· Eugene O'Neill was a famed playwright and his masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night (produced posthumously ), is at the apex of a Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · Bound East for Cardiff, wr. , pr. , pb. ; Thirst, and Other One-Act Plays, pb. ; Chris Christophersen, wr. , pb. (revised as Anna Christie); Beyond the Horizon, pr., pb. ; The Emperor Jones, pr. , pb. ; Anna Christie, pr. , pb. ; The Hairy Ape, pr., pb. ; All God’s Chillun Got Wings, pr., pb. ; Complete Works, pb. (2 Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Eugene O'Neill was an admirer of the Greek classics; he had read Aristotle and the tragic poets, and aimed to follow the classical model in his drama. The Greek elements in his theater are a conscious borrowing of the themes or the plots of ancient tragedies artistically adapted to his.
Eugene O'Neill Biographical B orn October 16th, , in New York City. Son of James O'Neill, the popular romantic actor. First seven years of my life spent mostly in hotels and railroad trains, my mother accompanying my father on his tours of the United States, although she never was an actress, disliked the theatre, and held aloof from its people. Eugene O'Neill was a brilliant playwright. He was a master of creating suspense in his plays. His was a dark kind of genius. He focused on creating scenarios where people were pushed to their breaking point and finding that their plans were going awry. O'Neill concocted elaborate family secrets and showed the consequences of taboo love affairs. Pages in category "Plays by Eugene O'Neill" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ().
Eugene O'Neill was a famed playwright and his masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night (produced posthumously ), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon. 30 Plays. Vol 1:Strange Interlude; Desire Under The Elms; Lazarus Laughed; The Fountain; The Moon of the Caribbees;Bound East For Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home; In the Zone; Ile; Where the Cross is Made; The Rope;The Dreamy Kid; Before Breakfast. 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.
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