Eugene O’Neill

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what year did Eugene O'Neill get Nobel in Literature
1936
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Eugene O'Neill play/NYC 1912 Harry Hope's saloon
12 men+3 prostitutes wait for Theodore "Hickey" Hickman to show for Harry's bday party
Hickey appears and says sober=see life clear, convinces other people to go into the worldThey fail, come back, and Hickey confesses that he murdered his wife Evelyn b/c 'he loved her so much', he realize he's insane and wants death penalty
(The) Iceman Cometh
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where is The Iceman Cometh set
Harry Hope's saloon, NYC 1912
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char include: Ed Mosher (bro-in-law), Pat McGloin (former police), Willie Oban (Harvard Law alum), Hugo Kalmar (former anarchist editor, quotes Old Testament), Larry Slade (former syndicast-anarchist), Rocky Pioggi (night bartender, runs prostitution), Pearl and Margie (prostitutes), Harry Hope and Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
(The) Iceman Cometh
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year Long Day's Journey Into Night won Drama Pult
1957
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Connecticut home called Monte Cristo Cottage in August 1912
Act I: James Tyrone (65 y/o actor, resent of char he played, has money but only in property) and wife Mary (morphine addict, back from rehab). Son Edmund concerned for her, but he may have TB
Act II: Jamie (older son) and Edmund joke abt watering down dad's alcohol/Mary comes down, Edmund believes her/Mary scares Edmund and Jamie gets mad
Act III: Mary and Cathleen back from drugstore to get morphine prescrip for Mary's 'arthritic' hand/Edmund and James Sr both drunk but know/Jamie at 'local whorehouse' and drinking/Edmund has TBAct IV: Edmund talks to fath over solitaire/Jamie back drunk and reveals he loves Edmund but wants him to fail/Mary holds wedding gown and talks about being in a covenant
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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setting of Long Day's Journey Into Night
Monte Cristo Cottage (Connecticut home of Tyrone's), August 1912
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dilapidated Connecticut farm/tenant farmer Phil Hogan creates scheme for daught Josie to seduce and blackmail land owner Jim Tyrone/Josie learns Jim not gonna sell/Tyrone reveals he bought prostitute after mom diedoes to NYC to settle mom's estate, abt to die of alcoholism
(A) Moon for the Misbegotten
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focuses on Mayo famros Andrew (Andy) and Robert (Rob) both in love with Ruth Atkins/set on fam farm/won Drama Pult 1920y Eugene O'Neill
Beyond the Horizon
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year Beyond the Horizon won Drama Pult
1920
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Act I: bar owned by Johnny the Priest, ran by Larry/Old Chris (coal-barge cap) get letter from daught title char(not seen since she 5)/they go to barge crew
Act II: barge crew rescues Mat Burke+5 men/title char and Mat fall in love
Act III: Chris doesn't want Anna to marry sailor (Mat Burke)/Anna mad b/c they think they can control her/title char reveals she was raped, then a nurse's aide, then prostitute/Mat mad and leaves
Act IV: Anna leaves prostitutions, Chris agrees to marriage Drama Pult 1922y Eugene O'Neill
Anna Christie
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year Anna Christie won Drama Pult
1922
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Nina Leeds (daught of classics profes) sad b/c fiance died in WWI/marries amiable fool Sam Evans
while preggo, learns insanity runs in fam/decides to abort baby
best idea to have Ned Darnell's baby, but falls in love (has kid Gordon Evans)
Sam dies/Nina marries Charlie Madsen (reporter)
odd soliloquy technique Eugene O'Neill 1928 Drama Pult
Strange Interlude
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year Strange Interlude won Drama Pult
1928
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