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| | '''Eugene O'Neill''' (1888-1953) was an [[American]] [[playwright]] "famous for the bleak and tragic tone of his plays, which persistently examine the crushed hopes and dreams of the underprivileged."<ref>http://www.encyclopediaproject.net/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill</ref> His best-known plays include: | | '''Eugene O'Neill''' (1888-1953) was an [[American]] [[playwright]] "famous for the bleak and tragic tone of his plays, which persistently examine the crushed hopes and dreams of the underprivileged."<ref>http://www.encyclopediaproject.net/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill</ref> His best-known plays include: |
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| − | *''Anna Christie''; | + | *''Anna Christie'' (1922); |
| − | *''Desire Under the Elms''; | + | *''Desire Under the Elms'' (1924); |
| − | *''Mourning Becomes Electra''; | + | *''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1931); |
| − | *''Ah, Wilderness''; | + | *''Ah, Wilderness'' (1933); |
| − | *''The Iceman Cometh''; | + | *''The Iceman Cometh'' (1939); |
| − | *''Long Day's Journey into Night''; and | + | *''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' (1947); and |
| − | *''A Moon for the Misbegotten''. | + | *''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1956). |
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| − | Four of his plays were awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and O'Neill received the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in 1936 "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy".<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html</ref> He is regarded as "one of the greatest playwrights in American history".<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/oneill_e.html</ref> | + | Four of his plays, ''Beyond the Horizon'', ''Anna Christie'', ''Strange Interlude'', and ''Long Day's Journey into Night'', were awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and O'Neill received the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in 1936 "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy".<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html</ref> He is regarded as "one of the greatest playwrights in American history".<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/oneill_e.html</ref> |
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