Eugene O'Neill
Playwright, Author
1888 – 1953
Who was Eugene O'Neill?
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an Irish American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one well-known comedy. Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
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- Born
- Oct 16, 1888
Times Square - Also known as
- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- Eugene ONeill
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Agnes Boulton
(1918/04/12 - 1929/07/03) - Kathleen Jenkins
(1909/10/02 - 1912) - Carlotta Monterey
(1929/07/22 - 1953/11/27)
- Agnes Boulton
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Princeton University
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Connecticut
- Ridgefield
- New York City
- Died
- Nov 27, 1953
Boston - Resting place
- Forest Hills Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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