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Eugene Glastone O’Neill(1888-1953)尤金·奥尼尔 By 110531098 申超男 General Evaluation One of the foremost playwright of the 20th century The first American dramatist to regard the stage as a literary medium The first American playwright ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1936). Winning Pulitzer Prizes for four times: Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anne Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day’s Journey into Night (1957). “Founder of the American drama,” and “the American Shakespeare” in the history of American drama. Life 1) 1888, born in a Broadway hotel,which later became known as Times Square. Educated by tours for his first seven years with his father. In 1895,he entered a strict Catholic boarding school where he rebelled the demands of school and religion. 1906, went to Princeton University. Was kicked out after his first year owing to poor academics and heavy drinking Life 2) 1910, became a seaman. His wife,Kathleen, gave birth a son who met his father when he was 11. 1912, he attempted suicide in his room. He and Kathleen divorced. He contracted tuberculosis（TB） and he lived in a tubercular sanatorium疗养院 for 6 months. Read a lot of plays. 1914-1915, studied in Prof. George P.Bakers workshop, Harvard University. Life 3） 1918,ONeill married his second wife, writer Agnes Boulton, with whom he had two children, Shane and Oona. 1920, published his first long play, Beyond the Horizon,which established his fame as a creative playwright. 1928, he left his wife Agnes and set sail to Europe and in 1929,he married Carlotta. 1936, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His death and influences ONeill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he, in a barely audible whisper, spoke his last words: I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room. After Shakespeare and Shaw, ONeill became the most widely translated and produced dramat