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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Eugene O'Neill
Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond the Horizon (1998) 221 copias
Ah, wilderness! : The hairy ape ; All God's chillun got wings ; The emperor Jones ; Desire under the elms (1960) 26 copias
Ah, wilderness! And two other plays: All God's chillun got wings, and Beyond the horizon (1964) 24 copias
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill VOLUME 1: Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms, Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, The… (1948) 20 copias
The Emperor Jones with a Study Guide for the Screen Version of the Play (Students' Edition) (Appleton Modern… (1934) 14 copias
The Unfinished Plays: Notes for the Visit of Malatesta, the Last Conquest, Blind Alley Guy (1988) 8 copias
Four Plays: Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Touch of the Poet (1978) 7 copias
Ile 7 copias
Anna Christie / Beyond the Horizon / Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape / Days Without End (2004) 5 copias
Teatro 4 copias
Le opere: La luna dei Caraibi, Il lungo viaggio di ritorno, L'imperatore Jones, Anna Christie, Strano interludio, Il… (1978) 4 copias
Selected Plays Of Eugene O'Neill 4 copias
Complete Works of Eugene O'Neill vol I}signed by O'Neill Ltd ed 1163/2000 vol I only of a 2 vik set (1924) 3 copias
Teatro escogido 3 copias
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill VOLUME 1 3 copias
Three American Plays 3 copias
Viaje a la noche y otros ocho dramas 2 copias
The plays of Eugene O'Neill 1 2 copias
Plays 2 copias
The Long Voyage Home, Seven Plays Of The Sea (1946) Random House Hardcover Eugene O'Neill (1946) 2 copias
Dramen, Fast ein Poet, Trauer muß Elektra tragen, Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht (1960) 2 copias
Seven contemporary plays 2 copias
Abortion 2 copias
Ah, Wilderness and Other Plays 2 copias
Servitude 2 copias
The Hairy Ape, and other plays 2 copias
I tjocka på Atlanten 2 copias
Nine Plays By Eugene O'neil 2 copias
Chris Christopherson 1 copia
The Personal Equation 1 copia
Teatro escogido ... 1 copia
Now I Ask You 1 copia
Bread and Butter 1 copia
LOST PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL 1 copia
Teatro Volume primo 1 copia
Electra e os fantasmas. Trilogia 1 copia
Thirst, and other one act plays 1 copia
Última voluntad y testamento de un perro distinguidísimo / Eugene O´Neill ; ilustraciones de Alessandra Genualdo ;… (2019) 1 copia
Hughie (Playbill) [Vol 1 No 12] 1 copia
Dias sem fim 1 copia
Desire Under The Elms 1 copia
Complete Plays: 1920-1931 1 copia
Long day's journey into night 1 copia
NUEVE DRAMAS 1 copia
5 plays 1 copia
The Iceman Cometh 1 copia
O'Neill drámák 1. 1 copia
American Dream 1 copia
Olje / Ile 1 copia
Teatr 1 copia
Quatro Peças - - Volume 35 1 copia
Mattia Pascal und Einer, keiner, hunderttausend - Pirandello, 1934/ Meisterdramen - O'Neill, 1936/ Jean Barois -… (1984) 1 copia
De l'Huile, pièce en 1 acte d'O'Neill. (Coll Education et Théâtre), N° 37 ; Théâtre de répertoire 1 copia
Electra Enlutada 1 copia
O'Neill drámák 2. 1 copia
The Fountain 1 copia
Nine Plays 1 copia
Gold: A Play in Four Acts (1920) 1 copia
The Iceman Cometh 1 copia
Ah, Wilderness and Other Plays 1 copia
El poeta y sus sueños 1 copia
Early plays 1 copia
The days of Eugene O'Neil 1 copia
Coup de théâtre 1 copia
Los Demonios 1 copia
Eugene O'Neill: Nine Plays 1 copia
Collected Plays 1 copia
Oltre l'orizzonte 1 copia
Fermenti 1 copia
Plays 1 copia
Nueve dramas; Vol. I 1 copia
Fog 1 copia
The Dreamy Kid 1 copia
Complete Works Vol. 2 1 copia
EUGENE O'NEILL PLAYS (4): Moon for the Misbegotten, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, Long Day's… (1973) 1 copia
Le opere 1 copia
Il castoro 1 copia
Dvi amerikiečių pjesės 1 copia
Négy dráma 1 copia
Amerikanisches Theater 1 copia
TRAANIA 1 copia
VAARAVYÖHYKKEESSÄ 1 copia
Théâtre choisi 1 copia
Anna Christie [Souvenir Program] 1 copia
I capolavori di Eugene ONeill 1 copia
Homecoming 1 copia
Opere 1 copia
A Wife For A Life 1 copia
Tocht naar het duister 1 copia
سبع مسرحيات 1 copia
The Emperor Jones & The Straw 1 copia
Electra e os fantasmas: trilogia 1 copia
Più grandi dimore 1 copia
Where The Cross Is Made: "My motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.” (2014) 1 copia
Ah, wilderness!: And two other plays: All God's chillun got wings, and Beyond the horizon (The Modern library,… (1955) 1 copia
Desejo Sob os Ulmeiros 1 copia
Trauer muss Elektra tragen 1 copia
Lunga giornata verso la notte 1 copia
The Eugene O’Neill Collection 1 copia
Lang dags ferd mot natt 1 copia
Experimental O'Neill: The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and The S.S. Glencairn One-Act Plays (2016) 1 copia
Antes del desayuno 1 copia
Quatro peças 1 copia
Pod karribbským měsícem 1 copia
Premio nobel de literatura 1936 1 copia
Kariibide kuu : [näidendid] 1 copia
عشر مسرحيات مفقودة 1 copia
Gold; a play in four acts 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 110 copias
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949) — Contribuidor — 25 copias
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 copias
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November, 1932) — Editor — 3 copias
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 3 — Editor — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 2 (December, 1932) — Editor — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 4 — Editor — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 5 — Editor — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 6 — Editor — 1 copia
Nobel Prize Library Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 7 — Editor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Nombre legal
- O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1888-10-16
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1953-11-27
- Lugar de sepultura
- Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration
- Lugares de residencia
- 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 - Educación
- St. Aloysius Academy for Boys
Princeton University
Harvard University - Ocupaciones
- playwright
poet
reporter
actor
assistant stage manager
prospector (mostrar todos 9)
sailor
secretary
editor - Relaciones
- O'Neill, Eugene, Jr. (son)
O'Neill, Shane (son)
Boulton, Agnes (wife)
Bryant, Louise (girlfriend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
Strindberg, August (friend) (mostrar todos 8)
Reed, John (friend)
Chaplin, Geraldine (grand daughter) - Organizaciones
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
The Lambs
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Provincetown Players (co-manager)
New London Telegraph (reporter) (mostrar todos 8)
Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World
American Spectator (associate editor and contributor) - Premios y honores
- 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) (mostrar todos 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)
Miembros
Reseñas
Última voluntad y testamento de un perro di… por Eugene O´Neill, 1988-1953
"Cuando en 1940 el dramaturgo Eugene O’Neill perdió a su perro Blemie, decidió escribir este breve texto con el fin de encontrar consuelo para él y su esposa. En forma de testamento y últimas voluntades, O’Neill imagina los recuerdos y pensamientos de su fiel amigo en sus últimos días, desde los que ve venir la muerte con dignidad y serenidad, solo preocupado por cómo afectará a sus amos".
Perkins es el hijo de un granjero Eben, que sólo espera el día en que puede heredar las tierras de su padre, un tiránico viudo. Pero cuando éste vuelve a casarse y anuncia que dejará sus posesiones a su nueva esposa, estallan las pasiones más encontradas a lo largo de una noche llena de furia y deseo entre Eben y su nueva madrastra.
La novela y la poesía estadounidenses tienen el trauma de no sentirse superiores a sus paralelas europeas. Así pues, fuera de la grandeza épica del "Moby Dick" o el prístino canto a la juventud originado en Whitman, toda esa literatura es allí muy "best seller", de consumo, olvidable y al final prescindible.
Pero ojo, otra cosa muy diferente es el teatro. Acaso sea por su feroz competencia con el cine o por la influencia de éste desde una etapa muy temprana de su génesis, que la cantidad de dramaturgos y obras que le han surgido en el siglo XX no tienen competencia en Occidente si no retrocedemos hasta el barroco europeo. Eugene O'Neill es uno de los exponentes máximos de este florecimiento de la dramaturgia norteamericana, y esta obra ha sido llevada al cine ya, al menos que yo sepa, dos veces.… (más)
Pero ojo, otra cosa muy diferente es el teatro. Acaso sea por su feroz competencia con el cine o por la influencia de éste desde una etapa muy temprana de su génesis, que la cantidad de dramaturgos y obras que le han surgido en el siglo XX no tienen competencia en Occidente si no retrocedemos hasta el barroco europeo. Eugene O'Neill es uno de los exponentes máximos de este florecimiento de la dramaturgia norteamericana, y esta obra ha sido llevada al cine ya, al menos que yo sepa, dos veces.… (más)
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