Three Plays Summary
Eugene O'Neill

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Three Plays Summary

This collection of plays by one of America's best known and most acclaimed dramatists explores variations on the central theme of family. Epic in both length and emotional scope, all three plays (written in the early years of the 20th Century) broke new ground in their explorations of sexuality, relationships, and theatrical storytelling. In doing so, they also explore secondary themes relating to the corruptible power of both love and revenge...

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O'neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

224 words, approx. 1 pages

O'neill, Eugene (1888-1953) Four times the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel laureate for literature in 1936, New York-born Eugene O'Neill is a towering, ground-breaking figure in... Read more

Eugene O'Neill Biographies (4)

Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill

15,932 words, approx. 54 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,... Read more

Eugene O'Neill

1,668 words, approx. 6 pages

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was among the foremost dramatists of the America theater. His main concern was with the anguish and turmoil that wrack the spirits of sensitive people.Eugene O'Neill set out... Read more

Eugene O'Neill

5,851 words, approx. 20 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 f... Read more

Eugene O'Neill

17,097 words, approx. 57 pages

Biography EssayIn 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 g... Read more