Eugene O'Neill
America's first great dramatist and its only playwright to win the Nobel Prize, O'Neill brought the psychological depth of Strindberg and the formal ambition of the Greeks to American theater. His autobiographical masterpiece Long Day's Journey into Night is among the greatest plays of the 20th century. He won four Pulitzer Prizes.
Works
- Long Day's Journey into NightAutobiographical tragedy depicting family addiction and generational trauma over one night
- The Iceman ComethNaturalistic drama about failed men in a saloon waiting for change
- Mourning Becomes ElectraTrilogy adapting Greek mythology to nineteenth-century American family setting
- Strange InterludeExperimental drama using asides to reveal internal desires and psychological conflicts
- Anna ChristieTragedy about a former prostitute seeking redemption through love and escape