Eugene_Gladstone_ONeill___尤金_奥尼尔.ppt

Brief Introduction Eugene Gladstone ONeill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism.(dramatic Realism ) His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. ONeill wrote only one well-known comedy (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism Selected works Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931 Ah, Wilderness! 1933 Days Without End, 1933 The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, first performed 1946 Long Days Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 A Moon for the Misbegotten, 1943 A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958 More Stately Mansions, second draft found in ONeills papers, first performed 1967 The Calms of Capricorn, published American Drama These authors wrote for the new theatre. They not only tried to avoid the clichés of plot, characterization, dialog, acting, and staging which had stultified the older drama, but they experimentation peculiar to the period was expressionism---the mingling of the realistic and the fantastic or symbolic. Experiments of this kind abound in the work of Eugene O’ Neill, the greatest American dramatist of the interwar period. * Ⅰ Brief introduction Ⅱ Life story Ⅲ Selected works Ⅳ American drama Life of Eugene Gladstone ONeill ONeill was born in a hotel, spent his early childhood in hotel rooms, on trains, and backstage. ONeill was educated at boarding schools--Mt. St. Vincent in the Bronx and Betts Academy in Stamford, Conn. He attended Princeton University for one year (1906-07). The next six years very nearly ended his life. He shipped to sea, submer