Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953)
Auteur de Long voyage du jour a la nuit
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Eugene O'Neill
Desire Under The Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra (1924) — Auteur — 958 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond the Horizon (1998) 222 exemplaires
The Long Voyage Home - Seven Plays Of The Sea - The Moon Of The Caribees; Bound East For Cardiff; Long Voyage Home; In… (1972) — Auteur — 151 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays (Dover Thrift Editions) (2016) — Auteur — 54 exemplaires, 1 critique
Ah, wilderness! : The hairy ape ; All God's chillun got wings ; The emperor Jones ; Desire under the elms (1966) 27 exemplaires
Ah, wilderness! And two other plays: All God's chillun got wings, and Beyond the horizon (1964) 24 exemplaires
Great God Brown, the Fountain, the Moon of the Caribbees and Other Plays (2005) 20 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill VOLUME 1: Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms, Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, The… (1983) 20 exemplaires
The Emperor Jones with a Study Guide for the Screen Version of the Play (Students' Edition) (Appleton Modern… (1949) 14 exemplaires
Plays: Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, Before Breakfast 9 exemplaires
The Unfinished Plays: Notes for the Visit of Malatesta, the Last Conquest, Blind Alley Guy (1988) 8 exemplaires
Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown 8 exemplaires
Four Plays: Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Touch of the Poet (1978) 7 exemplaires
Ile 7 exemplaires
Deseo Bajo los Olmos, Los Millones de Marco Polo, Intimamente Unidos. Nobel 1936 (1989) 6 exemplaires
Anna Christie / Beyond the Horizon / Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape / Days Without End (2004) 5 exemplaires
Teatro 4 exemplaires
Le opere: La luna dei Caraibi, Il lungo viaggio di ritorno, L'imperatore Jones, Anna Christie, Strano interludio, Il… (1978) 4 exemplaires
Selected Plays Of Eugene O'Neill 4 exemplaires
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill the Lifetime Library 3 exemplaires
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 exemplaires
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill VOLUME 1 3 exemplaires
Ah, Wilderness and Other Plays 3 exemplaires
Three American Plays 3 exemplaires
Teatro escogido 3 exemplaires
The plays of Eugene O'Neill 1 2 exemplaires
A Moon for the Misbegotten a play in 4 Acts 2 exemplaires
The Works of Eugene O'Neill - Marco Millions 2 exemplaires
Plays 2 exemplaires
The Long Voyage Home, Seven Plays Of The Sea (1946) Random House Hardcover Eugene O'Neill (1946) 2 exemplaires
Three Plays: The Emperor Jones, Diff'rent, The Straw 2 exemplaires
The Hairy Ape, and other plays 2 exemplaires
O'Neill Complete Plays: Volume 3: 1932-1943 [LIAM ONEILL COMP PLAYS] [Hardcover] (1988) 2 exemplaires
Viaje a la noche y otros ocho dramas 2 exemplaires
Nine Plays By Eugene O'neil 2 exemplaires
Seven contemporary plays 2 exemplaires
Abortion 2 exemplaires
Servitude 2 exemplaires
Dramen, Fast ein Poet, Trauer muß Elektra tragen, Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht (1960) 2 exemplaires
The Plays of Eugene O'neill - 1967 Volume 3 (Anna Christie, Beyond the Horizon....) (1967) 2 exemplaires
I tjocka på Atlanten 2 exemplaires
Chris Christopherson 1 exemplaire
The One-Act Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1 exemplaire
Now I Ask You 1 exemplaire
Bound East For Cardiff: “Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the… 1 exemplaire
The Personal Equation 1 exemplaire
The Fountain 1 exemplaire
Long Day's Journey Into Night: Multimedia Edition 1 exemplaire
Bread and Butter 1 exemplaire
Thirst, and other one act plays 1 exemplaire
Marco Milioni Il romanzo fantastico di Marco Polo 1 exemplaire
Teatro escogido ... 1 exemplaire
Seltsames Zwischenspiel Drama in 9 Akten. Von Eugene [Gladstone] O'Neill. Deutsche Übertr. von Marianne… 1 exemplaire
Moon for the Misbegotten, A ; Act 1-4 1 exemplaire
NINE PLAYS : SELECTED BY THE AUTHOR 1 exemplaire
Hughie (Playbill) [Vol 1 No 12] 1 exemplaire
Gold: A Play in Four Acts (1920) 1 exemplaire
Teatro Volume primo 1 exemplaire
The Later Plays of Eugene O'Neill, 1967 1 exemplaire
Desire Under The Elms 1 exemplaire
Electra e os fantasmas. Trilogia 1 exemplaire
A Touch Of The Poet (Playbill) [Vol 2 No 39] 1 exemplaire
A Touch Of The Poet (Playbill) [Vol 3 No 15] 1 exemplaire
A Touch Of The Poet (Playbill) [Vol 3 No 20] 1 exemplaire
Última voluntad y testamento de un perro distinguidísimo / Eugene O´Neill ; ilustraciones de Alessandra Genualdo ;… (2019) 1 exemplaire, 1 critique
The Dreamy Kid: “I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to… 1 exemplaire
Complete Plays: 1920-1931 1 exemplaire
VIAJE A LA NOCHE Y OTROS OCHO DRAMAS II 1 exemplaire
VIAJE A LA NOCHE Y OTROS OCHO DRAMAS I 1 exemplaire
NUEVE DRAMAS 1 exemplaire
A Moon For The Misbegotten 1 exemplaire
Ah, Wilderness! / by Eugene O'Neill ; with an introduction by Walter Kerr and illustrations by Shannon Stirnweis 1 exemplaire
5 plays 1 exemplaire
LOST PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL 1 exemplaire
American Dream 1 exemplaire
Electra Enlutada 1 exemplaire
Olje / Ile 1 exemplaire
Teatr 1 exemplaire
Quatro Peças - - Volume 35 1 exemplaire
Mattia Pascal und Einer, keiner, hunderttausend - Pirandello, 1934/ Meisterdramen - O'Neill, 1936/ Jean Barois -… (1984) 1 exemplaire
L'empereur Jones, pièce en 8 tableaux d'O'Neill. (Coll Education et Théâtre), N° 36; Théâtre de répertoire 1 exemplaire
De l'Huile, pièce en 1 acte d'O'Neill. (Coll Education et Théâtre), N° 37 ; Théâtre de répertoire 1 exemplaire
Le singe velu. Comédie de tous les temps en 8 tableaux d'Eugène O'Neill. (Coll Education et Théâtre), N° 40 ;… 1 exemplaire
O'Neill drámák 1. 1 exemplaire
Mourning Becomes Electra a Trilogy 1 exemplaire
The emperor Jones ; Anna Christie ; The hairy ape 1 exemplaire
Ah, Wilderness and Other Plays 1 exemplaire
El poeta y sus sueños 1 exemplaire
Viaje a la noche y otros ocho dramas [Tomo I] 1 exemplaire
Nine Plays 1 exemplaire
Nine plays. The Emperor Jones; The hairy ape; All God's chillun got wings; Desire under the elms; Marco millions;… 1 exemplaire
Le opere: Il lungo viaggio di ritorno: L'imperatore Jones: Anna Christie: Strano interludio: Il lutto si addice ad… 1 exemplaire
Nine Plays 1 exemplaire
Hostage to the Devil 1 exemplaire
Long Day's Journey Into Night Days 1 exemplaire
Marco Milioni 1 exemplaire
O'Neill drámák 2. 1 exemplaire
The days of Eugene O'Neil 1 exemplaire
Coup de théâtre 1 exemplaire
Los Demonios 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: Volume 2 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: Volume 1 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: Volume 3 1 exemplaire
Experimental O'Neill: The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and The S.S. Glencairn One-Act Plays (2016) 1 exemplaire
Dias sem fim 1 exemplaire
Fermenti 1 exemplaire
Plays 1 exemplaire
Nueve dramas; Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Fog 1 exemplaire
The Dreamy Kid 1 exemplaire
Collected Plays 1 exemplaire
EUGENE O'NEILL PLAYS (4): Moon for the Misbegotten, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, Long Day's… (1973) 1 exemplaire
Complete Works Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Le opere 1 exemplaire
THE PLAYS OF EUGENE O'NEILL : 9 PLAYS 1 exemplaire
The plays of Eugene O'Neill : Anna Christie : Beyond the horizon : The emperor Jones : The hairy ape : The great God… 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill Volume One 1 exemplaire
Il castoro 1 exemplaire
Dvi amerikiečių pjesės 1 exemplaire
Négy dráma 1 exemplaire
El emperador Jones; Antes del desayuno 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill Vol 3 1 exemplaire
Anna Christie and The Emperor Jones 1 exemplaire
Amerikanisches Theater 1 exemplaire
TRAANIA 1 exemplaire
VAARAVYÖHYKKEESSÄ 1 exemplaire
Théâtre choisi 1 exemplaire
Anna Christie [Souvenir Program] 1 exemplaire
Eugene O'Neills dramatik: Äktenskapsdramer 1 exemplaire
I capolavori di Eugene ONeill 1 exemplaire
Meisterdramen. [1]. [Dt. von Robert Schnorr u.a.] 1 exemplaire
Tre dramer : Emperor Jones ; Ludna gorillan ; Tran 1 exemplaire
Homecoming 1 exemplaire
Théâtre complet 2 : Le brin de paille - De l'or - Anna Christie - L'empereur Jones (1964) 1 exemplaire
Opere 1 exemplaire
Complete Works of Eugene O'Neill. 2 Vols. 1 exemplaire
A Wife For A Life 1 exemplaire
Tocht naar het duister 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill, vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Più grandi dimore 1 exemplaire
Where The Cross Is Made: "My motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.” (2014) 1 exemplaire
Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America) by O'Neill, Eugene published by Library of… 1 exemplaire
The Emperor Jones & The Straw 1 exemplaire
O`NEILL: COMPLETE PLAYS 1913-1920 1 exemplaire
Ah, wilderness!: And two other plays: All God's chillun got wings, and Beyond the horizon (The Modern library,… (1955) 1 exemplaire
Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America) by O'Neill, Eugene published by Library of America… 1 exemplaire
Desejo Sob os Ulmeiros 1 exemplaire
Trauer muss Elektra tragen 1 exemplaire
The Eugene O’Neill Collection 1 exemplaire
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill Volume 1 1 exemplaire
Eugene O'Neill: Nine Plays 1 exemplaire
Electra e os fantasmas: trilogia 1 exemplaire
O`NEILL: COMPLETE PLAYS 1920-1931 1 exemplaire
The plays of Eugene O'Neill. [Vol.1] 1 exemplaire
Antes del desayuno 1 exemplaire
Quatro peças 1 exemplaire
Pod karribbským měsícem 1 exemplaire
Premio nobel de literatura 1936 1 exemplaire
O`NEILL: COMPLETE PLAYS 1932-1943 1 exemplaire
Kariibide kuu : [näidendid] 1 exemplaire
عشر مسرحيات مفقودة 1 exemplaire
Early Plays (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 1 exemplaire
The Emperor Jones ; Diff'rent ; The straw 1 exemplaire
Gold; a play in four acts 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Contributeur — 111 exemplaires, 2 critiques
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires, 1 critique
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires, 1 critique
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1963) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 exemplaires
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November, 1932) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 3 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 2 (December, 1932) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 4 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 5 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 6 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Nobel Prize Library Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 7 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Nom légal
- O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
- Date de naissance
- 1888-10-16
- Date de décès
- 1953-11-27
- Lieu de sépulture
- Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Cause du décès
- cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration
- Lieux de résidence
- 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 - Études
- St. Aloysius Academy for Boys
Princeton University
Harvard University - Professions
- playwright
poet
reporter
actor
assistant stage manager
prospector (tout afficher 9)
sailor
secretary
editor - Relations
- O'Neill, Eugene, Jr. (son)
O'Neill, Shane (son)
Boulton, Agnes (wife)
Bryant, Louise (girlfriend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
Strindberg, August (friend) (tout afficher 8)
Reed, John (friend)
Chaplin, Geraldine (grand daughter) - Organisations
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
The Lambs
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Provincetown Players (co-manager)
New London Telegraph (reporter) (tout afficher 8)
Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World
American Spectator (associate editor and contributor) - Prix et distinctions
- 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) (tout afficher 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)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 348
- Aussi par
- 58
- Membres
- 12,018
- Popularité
- #1,952
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 117
- ISBN
- 445
- Langues
- 16
- Favoris
- 25