Eugene O'Neill

Plays by Eugene O'Neill

Early Full-Length Plays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection contains Eugene O'Neill's first three full-length plays: BEYOND THE HORIZON, THE EMPEROR JONES, and ANNA CHRISTIE. BEYOND THE HORIZON: Winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "...an absorbing, significant, and memorable tragedy... ...a playwright of real power and imagination... ...the play has greatness in it and marks O'Neill as one of our foremost playwrights...." Alexander Woolcott, Times "Only once or twice in the course of the dramatic season does a playof such terrific force and such simple directness award the patient theatrical chroniclers..." Robert Gilbert Welsh, Evening Telegram "...this season's most notable play of a serious theme and purpose by an American author...." World THE EMPEROR JONES: "...for strength and originality [O'Neill] has no rivals among the American writers for the stage." Alexander Woolcott, Times "An odd and extraordinary play, written with imaginative genius..." Kenneth Macgowan, Globe "...the most interesting play which has yet come from the most promising playwright in America..." Heywood Broun, Tribune ANNA CHRISTIE: Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "...a rich and salty play that grips the attention with the rise of the first curtain and holds it fiercely to the end.... A play written with that abundant imagination, that fresh and venturesome mind and that sure instinct for the theatre which set this young author apart...." Alexander Woollcott, Times

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Broadway Play Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780881451818
• ISBN-10: 0881451819
• Artikelnr.: 62159696

Autorenporträt

Eugene O'Neill was an American dramatist. His poetically themed plays were among the first in the United States to use realism drama techniques, which had previously been associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night, along with Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, is frequently featured in lists of the best American plays of the twentieth century. He received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. O'Neill's plays were among the first to feature talks in American English vernacular and characters from the margins of society. They try to retain their ambitions and objectives, but eventually succumb to disillusionment and despair. Only one of his few comedies has received widespread recognition. Almost all of his other plays contain some element of sorrow and personal pessimism. O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888, in the Barrett House hotel at Broadway and 43rd Street, in what was then Longacre Square (now Times Square), New York City. A commemorative plaque was first installed there in 1957. The location is presently filled by 1500 Broadway, which contains offices, retail, and the ABC Studios.