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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into . drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest .

Eugene O'Neill: Eugene O’Neill, foremost American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His masterpiece, Long Day’s Journey into Night (produced posthumously in 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Ah! Wilderness (1933), and The Iceman Cometh (1946). Dealing with the growing pains of a sensitive, adolescent boy, Ah, Wilderness! was characterized by O’Neill as the other side of the coin, meaning that it represented his fantasy of what his own youth might have been, rather than what he believed it to have been (as dramatized later in Long Day’s Journey into Night).

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Jr. (May 5, 1910 – September 25, 1950) was an American professor of Greek literature and the only child of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and his first wife, Kathleen Jenkins. O'Neill J. s parents divorced in 1912, when he was a toddler. O'Neill once said he did not even meet his father until age 12. He entered Yale in 1928; in his freshman year a poem he had written was widely reprinted

Eugene O'Neill was the first American dramatist to regard the stage as a literary medium and the first . playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Famed playwright Eugene O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888, in New York City. His masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night (produced posthumously 1957), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933) and The Iceman Cometh (1946). O'Neill died on November 27, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Eugene O’Neill wrote expressionist plays such as The Hairy Ape and Dynamo. He also wrote realist plays of which this comedy of recollection is emphatically one. By setting it on a sand-filled stage, however, Natalie Abrahami’s revival treats it as if it belonged in the former camp and the result, while visually seductive, works against the grain of O’Neill’s domestic specificity.

Ah, Wilderness! is usually branded a comedy, although writer Eugene O'Neill liked to call it an American folk play. Outside America it has never enjoyed the popularity of heavyweight O'Neill dramas such as Long Day's Journey into Night. But the director of a new production in London thinks, eight decades after it was written, it has plenty to offer. And the play has given actor George MacKay his most challenging role yet.

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a renowned American playwright. This biography of Eugene O'Neill provides detailed information about his childhood, life, writing career, achievements and timeline. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a renowned American playwright. He remained one of the pioneers in introducing poetically titled plays, which were usually used by certain playwrights of Russia, Sweden and Norway. O'Neill’s tragic masterpiece, ‘Long Day's Journey Into Night’, produced after his death in 1956, is not only considered his best work but also listed among greatest American plays of the twentieth century.

Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 2, 1933. It varies from a typical O'Neill play in its happy ending for the central character, and depiction of a happy family in turn of the century America. It is O'Neill's only well-known comedy. The play was successful in its first Broadway production and the touring production that followed.