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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'';
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*''Anna Christie'' (1922);
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*''Desire Under the Elms'';
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*''Desire Under the Elms'' (1924);
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*''Mourning Becomes Electra'';
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*''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1931);
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*''Ah, Wilderness'';
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*''Ah, Wilderness'' (1933);
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*''The Iceman Cometh'';
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*''The Iceman Cometh'' (1939);
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*''Long Day's Journey into Night''; and
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*''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' (1947); and
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*''A Moon for the Misbegotten''.
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*''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>
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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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