Eugene O'Neill is an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetic plays were among the first to introduce realism into American drama.
About Eugene O'Neill
Born on October 16, 1888, in New York City, he began writing plays by 1913 after a series of other jobs and works. By autumn 1916 he was the first production of a play in New York, the eastern border of Cardiff, which was presented at the inaugural opening of the Provincetown Theater. His plays soon appeared on Broadway.O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize and won it again in 1922 and 1928.Eugene was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 193 and 1935 and finally won it in 1936.
The beginnings of Eugene O'Neill
Born on October 16, 1888, in New York City, he is the son of James O'Neill, a popular romantic actor. "I spent the first seven years of my life in hotels and railways, where my mother always accompanied my father on his tours of the United States, even though she was not represented," says O'Neill.From the age of seven to thirteen, O'Neill enrolled in Catholic schools. He then spent four years in preparatory schools of other denominations and then spent one year at Princeton University. He was expelled from the university because of his disobedience, and then spent several years lounging. He worked in many professions, such as secretary of a small e-mail center in New York, He went on a gold exploration trip in the Spanish Hidaros Prairie, but returned without gold, carrying with him malaria.
He returned to the United States and worked for a while as an assistant director of a walking play company. He then traveled across the sea and worked in Buenos Aires at Westinghouse Electric Company, Swift Inc., and Singer for sewing machines, then ended his sea voyage, returned and his body exhausted to the United States, and there he worked as a reporter for a local small newspaper. At the end of 1912 his health collapsed and he spent six months in a tuberculosis clinic. He began writing plays in the autumn of 1913.
The achievements of Eugene O'Neill
He began writing a draft for his first play, Bound East For Cardiff, in the spring of 1914. In the autumn of 1914, Harvard University attended a course given by Professor George Baker on the dramatic rules of writing, but he did not comply and left it after a year.In the fall of 1916 he was the first production of a play in New York, the eastern border of Cardiff, which was presented in the opening presentation of the Provincetown Theater. In later years, most of his short plays were shown on this stage, but a long play was not produced until 1920, Mana Gemayt is producing a play Beyond the Horizon in New York. It was shown on Broadway but was presented only four times a week and an evening show, but critics praised it and soon got a theater to present the show regularly. Later that same year, O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize and won it again in 1922, In 1928.
Among his best known plays:
Politezer's Anna Christie, followed by Desire Under The Elms in 1924, followed by Strange Inter Lude, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. In addition to other works such as Mourning Becomes Electra in 1931 and his only comedy work Ah, Wilderness.
Eugene was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 193 and 1935 and finally won it in 1936.A 1952 film, A Moon For The Misbegotten, which has strong, dramatic content that captures much of O'Neill's autobiography, which he likes to share with the public. Posth was also written in 1956 and is considered one of O'Neill's most important works, and was premiered at the Royal Theater in Stockholm. After his career writing and supervising his own productions in New York, O'Neill published only two new plays between 1934 and before his death In The Iceman Cometh in 1946.
The most famous words of Eugene O'Neill
Our concerns are a myth, we spend our whole lives searching for the magic door, and the lost kingdom of peace.
I knew it, I knew it, I was born in a hotel room, and I would die in a hotel room.
Our concerns are a myth, we spend our whole lives searching for the magic door, and the lost kingdom of peace.
I knew it, I knew it, I was born in a hotel room, and I would die in a hotel room.
Our concerns are a myth, we spend our whole lives searching for the magic door, and the lost kingdom of peace.
I knew it, I knew it, I was born in a hotel room, and I would die in a hotel room.
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Eugene O'Neill Personal Life
O'Neal married Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909 to 1912, and had one son, Eugene O'Neill, 1910-1950.In 1917, O'Neill met the successful writer Agnes Bolton, married on April 12, 1918, lived in a home for her parents in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and had two children, Shinn and Oona, but the parents abandoned their children to the actress Carlotta Monterey, The actress married after his divorce less than a month. In 1929 they moved to the Loire Valley in central France. In the early 1930s, they returned to the United States to Georgia, and in 1937 they moved to California and lived there until 1944.In the early years of their marriage, Monterey organized the life of her husband, who devoted himself to writing, but was later addicted to potassium prosid, the deterioration of their marriage, and separated several times, but no divorce occurred between them.
Death of Eugene O'Neill
After O'Neill suffered from multiple health problems including depression and alcoholism, for many years, he eventually faced a Parkinson-like shake in his hands, making it impossible for him to write in the last ten years of his life.O'Neill died at room 401 at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. He was buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery in the Jamaica neighborhood of the Boston Plain.
Quick Facts About Eugene O'Neill
- Daughter of O'Neill Ona, married Charlie Chaplin in 1943, whom O'Neill had never seen before.
- His eldest son Eugene suffered from alcohol abuse and committed suicide in 1950 at the age of 40.
- His son, Chen O'Neill, was addicted to heroin and later committed suicide by jumping out the window.
- O'Neill joined the famous theater club The Lambs in 1950.