Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first American dramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his plays with rich characterization and innovative language, taking the outcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympian struggles with themselves-and with destiny.[...]
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coinc[...]
All of O'Neill's themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays. They are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here gathered in a single volume are nine one-act plays that span the playwright's career--from the early sea plays to the Expressionist masterpiece "The Hairy Ape" to the ee[...]
Eugene O'Neill's last completed play, "A Moon for the Misbegotten "is a sequel to his autobiographical "Long Day's Journey Into Night. Moon "picks up eleven years after the events described in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," as""Jim Tyrone (based on O'Neill's older brother Jamie) grasps at a last c[...]