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...

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...

"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,...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 "The Hairy Ape" Introduction. Eugene O'Neill thought of "The Hairy Ape" as the natural complement or descendent of The Emperor Jones. While Jones sinks back into his past, Yank, the ape-like seaman, attempts to rise to a higher level. Not only...

Early ape men were much larger than ape women according to evidence uncovered by researchers studying Australopithecus afarensis fossils. Males were probably polygamous and their size helped them to fight for females. THE description last month of "Son of Lucy", the first nearly...