Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888, who died on November 27, 1953, when he was 53 years old, a dramatic American.
In contrast to the other dramatic, O'Neill introduces the dramatic realism pioneered by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg into American drama.
In general, the drama involves a person who lives on the margins of society, who struggle with all their might to keep their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately fall into disappointment and despair.
Life
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Early life itself is associated with New London, Connecticut. His father, James O'Neill, was an Irish-born stage actor who had owned a property in New London before the birth of Eugene.
Meanwhile, her mother has been addicted to morphine since Eugene was born, and she could never accept the situation at the time of the death of her second child, died of measles at the age of 2 years.
Adolescence, O'Neill worked in the New London Telegraph and began writing dramas while he was working there.
During the year 1910, O'Neill appeared regularly on the Greenwich Village literary stage where there he was very friendly with so many radicals, the most important being the founder of the United States Communist Party called John Reed.
In 1929, he moved to the Loire Valley in northeastern France and settled on the Chateau du Plessis in St. Petersburg. Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire. He moved to Danville, California in 1937, which remained there until 1944. His existing home is now known as Tao House, now the National Historic Site of Eugene O'Neill.
The first drama O'Neill published was Beyond the Horizon, staged on Broadway in 1920 and earned a warm welcome, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In fact, in 1936, he successfully received the Novel Award in Literature.
After he stopped for more than 10 years, O'Neill's drama is now a famous drama, The Iceman Cometh, published in 1946. In the following year, A Moon for the Misbegotten who failed.
In 1953, O'Neill died in Boston while at the Sheraton Hotel, which was then a building now used by Boston University as a Shelton Hall dorm. When seen in Shelton Hall, there is a plaque dedicated to O'Neill on the 4th floor, called Writer's Corridor. His body was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Selected Works
- The Emperor Jones (1920)
- The Hairy Ape (1922)
- Anna Christie (1922)
- Desire Under the Elms (1925)
- Strange Interlude (1928)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)
- Ah, Wilderness! (1933)
- The Iceman Cometh (1939)
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1941)
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943)
- A Touch of the Poet (1942)
- More Stately Mansions
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