Mourning Becomes Electra

Name: Mourning Becomes Electra
Author: Eugene O'Neill

by Eugene O'Neill

Trilogy adapting Greek mythology to nineteenth-century American family setting

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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.

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