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Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill

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Author Biography

Name: Eugene O'Neill
Birth Date: October 16, 1888
Death Date: November 27, 1953
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright

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Biography of Eugene O'Neill
17194 words, approx. 57.3 pages
In the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The cha...
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Biography of Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill
16062 words, approx. 53.5 pages
In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The...
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Biography of Eugene O'Neill
5857 words, approx. 19.5 pages
"I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than fifty plays, won the Nobel and several Pulitzer prizes,...
 


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Anna Christie Information
1,461 words, approx. 5 pages
Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It tells the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in...


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Daily Variety
Anna Christie.(Theater review)
09/12/2006: 457 words, approx. 2 pages
(Center Stage NY: 65 seats; $20 top) A Boomerang Theater Company presentation of a play in two acts by Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Cailin Heffernan. Sets, Scott Orlesky; costumes, Cheryl McCarron; lighting, Melanie Smock; sound, Ann Warren: fight direction, B.H. Barry; production...
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The Washington Post
'Anna Christie,' Not Quite Redeemed
05/16/2005: 936 words, approx. 3 pages
Eugene O'Neill had a soft spot for ladies of the evening -- on the stage, anyway -- and the feelings he expressed about them were never mushier than in "Anna Christie," his tenderhearted fable of a fallen woman and the Irish lug she falls...
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The New York Observer
Glum Over G.O.P. and Dems, Greenspan Votes for a Book Tour
9/25/2007: 1,027 words, approx. 3 pages
THE AGE OF TURBULENCE: ADVENTURES IN A NEW WORLDBy Alan Greenspan The Penguin Press, 531 pages, $35 “Garbo talks.” That was the advertising slogan for Greta Garbo’s first talking picture, Anna Christie. A similar advertising campaign would have been appropriate for the famously cryptic economist...
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The New York Observer
Crikey! Brits Invade Again And All Kneel in Adoration
5/15/2005: 1,473 words, approx. 5 pages
Devoted readers of this column will need no reminder that the last thing I am is an Anglophile. In the way that we all have complicated relationships with places and people we've left, I've been hating the British for years.Born in England, I came to...
 


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Essay Grade: 92%
Anna's Acceptance of Her Sordid Past
2,492 words, approx. 8 pages
Essay is based on the play by Eugene O'Neill called Anna Christie. The essay is about a girl from the sea who seeks personal redemption from her sordid past. Through the sea, her father, and her lover, Anna finally accepts her past of being a prostitute.


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