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8 de jun. de 2024 · Eugene O’Neill, foremost American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His masterpiece, Long Day’s Journey into Night (produced posthumously in 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Ah!
1888 – 1953. America’s First Major Playwright. When Eugene O’Neill began writing for the stage early in the 20th century, American theatre was dominated by vaudeville and romantic melodramas. Influenced by Strindberg, Ibsen, and other European playwrights, O’Neill vowed to create a theatre in America, stripped of false sentimentality ...
Eugene O’Neill was born in New York, the son of Irish immigrants. During his first seven years, the family accompanied the father, who was an actor, on tour. Then O’Neill was sent to a Catholic boarding school. The father was an alcoholic and his mother abused morphine, which she received as a painkiller when her son was born.
Biographical note on Eugene O’Neill. After an active career of writing and supervising the New York productions of his own works, O’Neill (1888-1953) published only two new plays between 1934 and the time of his death. In The Iceman Cometh (1946), he exposed a «prophet’s» battle against the last pipedreams of a group of derelicts as ...
16 de ago. de 2023 · In 1936, Eugene O'Neill became the first U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Death Year: 1953. Death date: November 27, 1953. Death State: Massachusetts.
Tiempo de lectura: 3 minutos En 1912, mientras sufría complicaciones de tuberculosis, el joven Eugene O’Neill replanteó su vida.Por los últimos años, el hijo del actor irlandés James O’Neill y la compositora Ella Quinlan, había olvidado las pasiones que despertaron en él durante su época escolar y se había dedicado a trabajos marinos y sindicales, además de caer en el alcoholismo ...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 octobre 1888 – 27 novembre 1953) est un dramaturge américain. Il reçut le prix Pulitzer de l'œuvre théâtrale en 1920 et le prix Nobel de littérature en 1936. Plus que n'importe quel autre dramaturge, O'Neill a introduit dans le théâtre américain un réalisme dramatique commencé par Anton Tchekhov , Henrik Ibsen , et August Strindberg .
