Eugene O'Neill

BIOGRAPHY OF EUGENE O’ NEILL Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born in a New York City hotel room on 16th October, 1888,he son of famous actor James O’Neill and Ella O’Neill, spent the first seven years of his life touring with his father’s theater company. These years introduced O’Neill to the world of theater and the difficulties of maintaining artistic integrity. His father, once a well-known Shakespearean, had taken a role in a lesser play for its sizable salary. Family life was unstable. O'Neill's

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is one of the greatest American playwrights, he is known for plays such as “Long Day's Journey into Night” ,”Beyond the Horizon” (1920), “Anna Christie” (1922), “Strange Interlude” (1928), “Mourning Becomes Electra”(1931)and The Iceman Cometh (1946). His plays probe the American Dream, race relations, class conflicts, sexuality, human aspirations and psychoanalysis. He often became immersed in the modernist movements of his time as he primarily sought to create “modern

Biography of Eugene O'Neil Eugene O'neill Through poverty and fame, "An artist or nothing"(Miller p6), was the motto of a man named Eugene O'Neill, who wrote from his soul in an attempt to find salvation. In the year 1888, the Barrett House hotel in Time Square, New York saw the birth of a man who would be called the greatest American playwright. His father James, was an actor, and was famous across the United Sates for his role in the popular play Monte Cristo. Eugene's mother was a beautiful

characters in The Iceman Cometh suffer from denial and false hope. O'Neill places these characters in the appropriate setting in which they are able to fantasize about their dreams. Amidst the drunken and misguided characters, O'Neill presents a few that the reader builds hope and sympathy for. Each character uses a pipe dream in order to be able to become blind to their downfalls and to reality. In the bar setting, characters in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh portray the theme of denial by embracing

In 1887, one year prior to Eugene O’Neill’s birth, the first vote on women’s suffrage is taken in the Senate and fails. (Scholastic). In 1955, the year following O’Neill’s death, a woman, Rosa Parks, became the symbol for the civil rights movement. While these two events can seem unrelated, they frame the time in which Eugene O’Neill lived where the structure of gender roles in society experienced radical changes. Women received voting rights, as well as more legal and workplace rights that had never

O'Neill was born into the theatre. His father, James O'Neill, was a successful touring actor in the last quarter of the 19th century whose most famous role was that of the Count of Monte Cristo in a stage adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas père novel. His mother, Ella, accompanied her husband back and forth across the country, settling down only briefly for the birth of her first son, James, Jr., and of Eugene. Eugene, who was born in a hotel, spent his early childhood in hotel rooms, on trains,

Eugene O’Neill is widely considered the most influential of American playwrights. He is called the “founder of modern drama in the United States”, and holds the title of the first American playwright to earn a Nobel Prize in literature. (O’ Neill 794) His play, The Emperor Jones, is credited as being one that provided” several firsts in American theatre history: the Provincetown Players first major hit, the first major role for an African American actor on the legitimate Broadway stage (in houses

Before Breakfast Before Breakfast is a short gloomy play by Eugene O'Neill. Eugene O'Neill was born in 1888 in New York City. He is the only American dramatist to ever win the Nobel Prize for literature. Before Breakfast is set in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, in a small one room flat on Christopher Street. The flat consists of a kitchen and dinning area. There are only two characters in this drama. Mrs. Roland who is the only speaking character and her husband Alfred.

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill is a complicated story. It shows a day in the life of a dysfunctional family. This family is made up of four extremely different personalities. Tyrone is the sympathetic father. Mary is the morphine addicted mother. Jamie is the difficult older son and Edmond is the sick younger son. Everyone in this family has their strengths and weaknesses. In Tyrone’s case his strengths and the weight of his family’s weakness makes him the most sympathetic

family history of Eugene and where their faith lies as well as look at the effect religion had on him throughout his life and, of course, on all of his work. Eugene’s father, James O’Neill, and his mother, Mary Ellen Quinlan (known as Ella) had two very different backgrounds. James grew up Irish Catholic and came over to the States with his family to escape the famine (Black pgs. 1-2) while Ella had a very wealthy and stable household. Eugene also had to older siblings, Jamie and